Hi,
Being one of the "CMake people", I'm obviously biased toward the adoption ;)
Seriously, it's the logical/rational thing to do.
That said, I just committed a temporary revert so that backtraces are
reliable again and CMake adoption can really be possible now.
I also want to make sure everyone understands one thing: CMake is
awesome for us. CMake allows us to have our build system maintained by
3rd party. It allows us to have simple, readable build system
macros/functions which means anyone can hack them. It allows us to
support several ways to compile ros (CMake generators), from using xcode
to eclipse to VS to nmake and (mingw/unix) make files. It allows us to
have the MSVC builds we always have been wanting.
There is one tiny catch though: because of the excellent dependency
tracking, CMake build can be significantly slower compared to rbuild
build. You won't notice this if you check dependencies yourself and use
make module/fast, but if you compile full bootcd for example you'll
notice that it takes a moment to do dependency checking. This very
slowness is nothing compared to rbuild looping around itself n times
though ;)
As I'm sure you realize, it's not just about speed. The features we gain
are well worth it.
As final note: rest assured that we will do our best to make the CMake
build as fast as possible.
Regards,
Amine.
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