Hello.

On 24/01/17 03:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 00:07:19 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
> <barbi...@gmail.com> said:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 10:59 PM, Carsten Haitzler <ras...@rasterman.com>
>> wrote:
>>> On Tue, 24 Jan 2017 10:39:46 +1030 Simon Lees <sfl...@suse.de> said:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 01/24/2017 10:16 AM, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote:
>>>>> On Mon, 23 Jan 2017 16:50:04 -0200 Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
>>>>> <barbi...@gmail.com> said:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just merged the branch Marcel and I were working (actually we couldn't
>>>>>> share a branch since we cannot push to other developer's branch and we
>>>>>> cannot create a shared one).
>>>>>>
>>>>>> We'll work in tree, so we avoid conflicts as we do renames and change
>>>>>> the #defines.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> See TODO-cmake.txt on how you should help.
>>>>>
>>>>> hey just a sec... do we have to do this NOW?  for now we've been
>>>>> discussing "is it possible" and "how can it be done" and "here's a
>>>>> test". we haven't discussed when we should do this and a final "how" i
>>>>> guess... so before leaping into it... let's make sure everyone is ont he
>>>>> same page...
>>>>>
>>>>> you're working entirely in a branch atm or in master? i am reading my
>>>>> morning email and haven't looked at git commits yet...
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Well now is a good time given that people are actually doing it which
>>>> means I guess they have time maybe in 3 months they wont, also no one
>>>> has been jumping up and down for a release but I guess we are meant to
>>>> be hitting a stabilization period before a release sometime soon. Its
>>>> probably as good a time as any though.
>>
>> we tried to use a branch, but neither of us could create the shared
>> branch and syncing 2 rebase branches is painful. Thus we moved to
>> master, which shouldn't break for autotools folks -- just more noise
>> (however hopefully people will see some action and will jump to help).
>
> well seeing the commits is good. i just kind of think we may be jumping in a
> bit fast... :)
>
>>> well this is a massive change... "stage 0" isn't  (fixing up defines/ifdefs
>>> and tree consistency)... but the rest is a massive bucket of stuff... :/
>>
>> we're still seeing lots of changes in cmake/ folder because as we add
>> libraries and match more what autotools did, we see issues that must
>> be fixed.
>>
>> Hopefully this should settle soon.
>
> ok. i just wasn't expecting a leap into master so fast... at least some kind 
> of
> "let's have a plan" thing... :) but on the other side... the fact people are
> energized enough to work on it is great. so i'm loathe to shut that down. i'm
> more thinking "do we make this part of 1.19 release or just do this as a
> background task until after 1.19"... :)

I would strongly say we can keep working on it but not making it 
official for 1.19. It will take some more time to actually cover what we 
have right now (or what we want it to cover) and afterwards some more 
time to work out all the bugs and quirks to cater hour diverse user base.

regards
Stefan Schmidt

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