On 07.04.2013 18:29, Geoff Rowell wrote: > 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.
So it would appear someone needs to write a better project generator for cmake. :) -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
