> > Or even better: let's remove a lot of complexity and move the whole Julia > build system to CMake.
The main advantage I see to CMake is support for Visual Studio. I would not consider it a reduction of complexity -- CMake is very much like regexes: now you have two problems. Or perhaps three... set(number_problems 3 FORCE CACHE PARENT_SCOPE) I think I saw an issue about this some time https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11754 On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bart Janssens <b...@bartjanssens.org> wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:24 PM Isaiah Norton <isaiah.nor...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >> I'm not sure if there's any good way to introspect this and trigger a >> reconfigure from Julia's build system without adding a lot of complexity. >> > > Or even better: let's remove a lot of complexity and move the whole Julia > build system to CMake. I think I saw an issue about this some time, so I > guess it's non-trivial, but I'd be willing to help. >