On Apr 7, 2013, at 11:58 AM, "Bert Huijben" <b...@qqmail.nl> wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Reser [mailto:b...@reser.org] >> Sent: dinsdag 8 januari 2013 21:29 >> To: Subversion Development >> Subject: Subversion & Windows >> >> <snip> >> 5) We could rewrite the build system to use something like CMake in >> order to provide a truly cross platform build system. This would >> probably take quite a bit of time. But would probably be worthwhile >> for the project in the long term. > > I just used CMake for a different project and it appears it *doesn't* really > generate Visual Studio projects. It generates a simple Visual Studio project > that wraps a cmake invocation to do the actual building. (At least for Visual > C++ 2010 and 2012) > > This gets no-where-near the development experience we currently have with > real Visual Studio projects. Many development features, including dependency > checking and individual file rebuilds are disabled in this scenario. > > It might still be easier than NMake which is currently used for some of our > dependencies, but CMake is in its current state (tested 2.8.10) certainly not > a replacement for real Visual Studio files. Work experience tells me Bert is right. I'm not thrilled with the CMake/newer VS combination. Geoff
