On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, James King <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not a committer on the project, but here's my two cents. > > There is a fine balance between opening the flood gates and having a > potentially constantly broken trunk, and having a trunk where folks know > that once they have run a sufficient test suite that they have not > broken things. There is no such comprehensive test suite in Thrift > today, and given the cross-platform, cross-language nature of the > project it will take a good amount of time and energy to make that > happen. In fact, a comprehensive build of the project requires at least > a linux and a windows machine, since you cannot create the C# runtime > and test it on anything else. Moving to something like cmake for > cross-platform make management would also be a good idea. >
+1 on cmake. I currently use it for some of my projects. A LOT easier to use than the GNU Autotools.
