On Thursday 10 Feb 2011 14:38:55 Nicolas Desprès wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Probably some of you are already aware of this new open-source project > coming from a Chrome developer at Google. > > Its goal was to improve the build system performance of the Chrome > project. So it is designed to be a fast replacement for make. > > He speaks about it in its blog here: > > http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html > > You can find the source code here: > > https://github.com/martine/ninja > > and the manual here: > > http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html > > As mentioned in the documentation the input file for ninja are not > designed to be written by hand and should be generated. So it > perfectly fits in CMake generator approach to build system. > > Maybe it worth adding a new generator for Ninja in CMake. I don't > know about the maturity/stability of the project, though it is still > very young (started in last October but still maintained today > according to the git log). Also, if it is internally used at Google > for the Chrome project, I think it is not going to die. > > I will try to find some time on my spare time to start writing a > generator for it. Helps is welcome too :-) I would like to see if it > really increases build time of project already using CMake, such as > boost or KDE.
I would be very interested to see this. I think we all now that in many ways 'make' is showing its age. Without tools like CMake supporting Ninja it will have a hard time catching on. I don't really have to time to devote to developing the generator but I would be very happy to test it on a number of CMake projects I'm involved with. Do we know if Ninja is supposed to be cross-platform (i.e. Windows) as well? Regards, Matt _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake