Bob McIsaac wrote:
IMO, maintaining a universal build tool that works for both windows
and unix
is too complicated given the broken-minded idioms found on the windows
platform. Mingw and Cygwin only extend this complexity. So it is
better
to have a separate windows build system.
I am tempted to fume mightily at you for such a remark. So I will ask 4
pointed questions, to see if I'm overracting and there is indeed a basis
for rational discussion:
1) do you care about building stuff on Windows? Is this actually
important to you, or are you one of those Unix-only types?
2) what do you propose as a "separate Windows build system," considering
that Windows has many compilers, all requiring different build systems?
Are you proposing anything other than "well I was just going to support
my own favorite compiler and leave other people hanging" ?
3) do you actually know anything about CMake?
4) are you doing, or going to do, any real work to resolve
cross-platform build issues?
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
"We live in a world of very bright people building
crappy software with total shit for tools and process."
- Ed McKenzie
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