On Apr 29, 2017 9:19 PM, "Gregg Smith" <g...@gknw.net> wrote:
On 4/29/2017 5:19 PM, Gregg Smith wrote: Bill, viewing the complete thread your reasoning here should have > precluded this discussion years ago when pcre went to cmake, so at or > before 2.4.0. After all, it's the only way to build pcre which is a hard > requirement, not soft like brotli. > > I guess I didn't see it all. I see now where your reasoning is as far as doing it now and not before. I am not clear either; I'm putting forward a rationale for simplifying our repository in 2.5.x+++ and not actually suggesting we remove any module. If we add modules to 2.4.x in subversion releases, and a given module requires CMake, my comment was that it's possible for us to consider supporting this only under cmake and not under the dsw/dsp build schema. I see no majority as 3 do, 3 do not (if I include expat). This is assuming nghttp2 fixed the cmake problem I had on windows. I would think so as a long time and many versions have come since then. I'm still against removal/shorting legacy yet not against recommending cmake. Again my comments are largely about what comes next. At the time 2.4.0 was prepared, there were a number of archaic pcre options. That won't be the case when 2.5.0 beta is tagged. I've always been against breaking changes during subversion point bumps, and lessening the dsw/dsp/mak support would be one such change if it happened in any 2.4.x release. Because there is no mod_,brotli in 2.4.25, including or excluding it from one schema or another is not a breaking change by any measure. There is one and only one justification for the unsupported dsw/dsp format and that is simply that MS broke the ability to export .mak files when introducing VcProj/sln solutions. I will support, if a majority (or significant minority) insists on VcProj files within an sln that cannot be correctly generated under CMake. I refuse to persist with dsp/dsw files because CMake can emit these on its own. There is no surviving supported tool that speaks dsw/dsp and such files must go away as we roll out a new 2.5.x for consideration.
