> >> As for your concerns about CMake being available or not: it's > >> available from all Linux and BSD variants I know because more and more > >> projects are moving to CMake because more and more projects are > >> concerned about cross-platform, including MSVC. It's not something > >> esoteric. > > > > As far as I know, there are still a lot of project against the ideas > > of using CMake to replace the autotools. > > The main reason why we do not use cmake is that it makes things much > more complicated for the end-user, while adding additional maintenance > requirements that we should get for free from the build system. > > Here's what I mean. > > In the autotools world, there is a very defined and extremely enforced > concept that above all, our goal is to make it *TRIVIAL* for the end > user to compile your software. Now let's clarify this. The end user > is the guy who knows nothing about development, nor of your project, > nor of autotools, nor of anything else. But he needs your project for > some reason. We want that guy to be able to do this: > > cd /tmp; /path/configure && make
What do you expect to be the breakdown of how you (as committers) will build/debug/test ironCrate? For example, are these the right categories and reasonable estimates? 75% - Build on Linux for Linux (Wine) [1] 22% - Cross-build on Linux for Windows 2.8% - Build on Windows for Windows (all MinGW flavors) 0.2% - Build on Windows for Windows (VC++) Now turn it around. What do you expect to be the build breakdown for devs trying to use ironCrate? Jon [1] I don't use Wine, but as Wine appears focused on other DLLs not the CRT this may be nonsensical. It's pure speculation/spelunking on my part. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list Mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
