My view on this...bit of a ramble.
I'm new to Nuttx, and have a new/custom board I'm porting it to. Nuttx
didn't play nicely/easily with either Windows or MAC for me and I
eventually went to Linux; and have no regrets as life is so much easier
as result. A full build takes no more than 10seconds compared to minutes
using WSL and a complete fail on mac.
The current makefile system is a bit clunky, but once you understand it
- and it really doesn't take long to do so - it works fine and is
similar to the methodology I've used for years and years and years.
I have no experience of Cmake so my initial reaction is "oh no, just got
to grips with all of this, why would I want to jump ship to some other
way of doing it".
If Cmake could have shortened the process of getting a new board ported
and NuttX running, and made the whole experience better/easier/quicker
then it would have been a good thing I would think.
But is the point, perhaps, that if you have a project/build that's
working for a given board there is little incentive to rework your
enironment just to suit a new methodology?
I think that may point towards concentrating effort on new and/or very
popular boards, but leave others alone (for now). I suspect - for
example - that I am one of very few using sama5d2, given the number of
errors I've found (!), so is it really worth the effort to change that
arch to use Cmake?
It may be though! But, as I said, I don't know Cmake so it's very very
difficult to give a meaningful opinion.
My final thought is "if it ain't broke, don't fix it". Is the current
system actually broken?
