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.

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