> So Visual Projects could be removed from repo and generated for example as part of release.
Or development process. Right? ________________________________ Von: Konrad Grochowski Gesendet: 25.11.2014 01:00 An: dev@thrift.apache.org Betreff: Re: [DISCUSS] CMake for Apache Thrift cmake can generate vcxproj files from it's CMakeLists.txt (not sure if that requires something specific on CMakeLists part). So Visual Projects could be removed from repo and generated for example as part of release. (Keeping them now in repo really makes at leats 3 separate build systems to maintain... - for compiler only). With cmake we could think about releasing thrift.exe using visual, which would remove dependency on mingw. -KG W dniu 2014-11-25 o 00:46, Jens Geyer pisze: > > Agree. Having two build systems to maintain will become a PITA > quickly. Everything that is easier and more reliable than autotools > (I'm looking at you, MinGW) gets a +1 from me. As I understand it, the > Visual Studio project(s) will still be available somehow, right? > > JensG > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- From: Jake Farrell > Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 11:04 PM > To: dev@thrift.apache.org > Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] CMake for Apache Thrift > > I do not think that we should run both autotools and cmake in parallel. > There are enough pieces that get missed when new client libraries or > files > are added that make putting the releases together harder than they > need to > be without having to make sure that its mirrored into an additional build > system. > > Switching to cmake has been proposed before, THRIFT-797, and at that time > there was little benefit to switching away from autotools. As we now > support a lot more clients libraries and autotools has had a tendency to > break backwards compatibility perhaps this might be a good time to > look at > overhauling the build to make things easier. > > -Jake > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 3:36 PM, Roger Meier <ro...@bufferoverflow.ch> > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> The Apache Thrift compiler is optionally using CMake already and we had >> very good experience by using CMake also for the cpp library to get >> it up >> and running on Linux-ARM, Linux-x86, Windows CE and Windows. >> >> I like to propose CMake as an additional build system for Apache Thrift. >> >> Goal: Extend Apache Thrift's *make cross* approach to the build system. >> >> Due to growing field of operating system support, a proper executable >> and library detection mechanism running on as much platforms as possible >> becomes required. The other aspect is simplify the release process and >> package generation process. >> >> As nice side benefit of CMake is the generation of development >> environment >> specific solution files(VisualStudio, Eclipse, Xcode, etc. ). >> => No solution files within source tree. >> >> see https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-2850 >> >> What are your thoughts? >> >> all the best! >> -roger >> >> >> >> >
