On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Amine Khaldi
<amine.khaldi@reactos.org> wrote:
Hi,
Being one of the "CMake people", I'm obviously biased toward the adoption ;)
Seriously, it's the logical/rational thing to do.
That said, I just committed a temporary revert so that backtraces are reliable again and CMake adoption can really be possible now.
I also want to make sure everyone understands one thing: CMake is awesome for us. CMake allows us to have our build system maintained by 3rd party. It allows us to have simple, readable build system macros/functions which means anyone can hack them. It allows us to support several ways to compile ros (CMake generators), from using xcode to eclipse to VS to nmake and (mingw/unix) make files. It allows us to have the MSVC builds we always have been wanting.
There is one tiny catch though: because of the excellent dependency tracking, CMake build can be significantly slower compared to rbuild build. You won't notice this if you check dependencies yourself and use make module/fast, but if you compile full bootcd for example you'll notice that it takes a moment to do dependency checking. This very slowness is nothing compared to rbuild looping around itself n times though ;)
As I'm sure you realize, it's not just about speed. The features we gain are well worth it.
As final note: rest assured that we will do our best to make the CMake build as fast as possible.
Regards,
Amine.