CMake is also supported by buildbot, so its gonna be even easier here. Big
plus.

2010/6/13 Adam Kachwalla <geekdun...@gmail.com>

> Does this mean the back-end for make (for various IDE project/workspace
> files) will be replaced by CMake instead? If so this sounds good; let's see
> if Fireball is around. :)
>
> Definitely better than duplicating effort.
>
>
> On Sun, 13 Jun 2010 21:42:46 +1000, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de>
> wrote:
>
>
>> After Olaf's mentioning of increased buildtimes I'd like to throw 2
>> different, independent and major changes to our build process into
>> discussion. One is about rbuild and one is about the file layout. I'd
>> like to start with the rbuild related topic.
>>
>> What I suggest only for consideration, is a move away from rbuild and
>> instead using CMake.
>> CMake is available for Windows and *nix, for Windows both as commandline
>> ans as a lightweight gui tool.
>> It is capable of translating a portable buildfile format into different
>> makefile formats, including nmake and project files for VS and
>> CodeBlocks. It seems incredibly fast compared to rbuild and probably
>> provides every feature we ever need. Although the syntax is a tiny bit
>> more complex than rbuild files, it's much better than writing makefiles.
>> Adding support for building with MSVC should be relatively easy. It's
>> not really a suggestion, as I'm not sure about all the details, but I
>> think it's worth reviewing and taking into consideration.
>>
>> The second thing is about the file layout. I will post a seperate mail
>> soon.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Timo
>>
>>
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