From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
Cc: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
Cc: YUriy Zhuravlev <u.zhuravlev@postgrespro.ru>
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Subject: Re: WIP: About CMake v2
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:05:44 -0400
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com> writes:
> I guess I'm a bit skeptical about the idea of porting to a new build
> system. There's a good chance of replacing the problems we know about
> with new problems that are no less serious, but merely unknown to us.
> But I'm not going to stand here and hold my breath if everyone else
> thinks it's a good idea.
FWIW, I'm also skeptical that this experiment will succeed. I think it
is worth trying ... but I'm by no means promising to buy into the result.
There is precedent for this sort of thing: mysql converted from
autoconf+gmake to cmake a few years back, and AFAIK they've not
regretted it. So that's a data point that a project of complexity
more or less similar to ours can make the change.
Where I do *not* want to end up is maintaining *three* build systems.
So I'll definitely resist any proposals to commit a partly-done cmake
conversion (which I fear might seem attractive at some point).
regards, tom lane
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