> On Apr 18, 2018, at 8:57 AM, Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> 
> I'm wondering whether that will result in expending a lot of effort to move 
> from a poorly-supported build system to a different poorly-supported build 
> system.


I’m not sure whether the former is autoconf/make or cmake, but count me as 
another vote for cmake over meson. CMake has direct support from Microsoft 
(Visual Studio 2017 can auto-ingest CMake-based files as soon as they’re 
checked out) and JetBrains CLion and is in use by LLVM, KDE, Qt, Blender, 
libpng, cURL, LAPACK, MySQL/MariaDB, OpenCV, SDL, the Dolphin Gamecube emulator 
etc.

So the tooling around people using it is there and it’s used by some very large 
and mature projects covering a variety of domains: I don’t know if it’s “poorly 
supported” (the documentation leaves something to be desired), but if CMake has 
trouble down the line a lot of very important projects will be in trouble. It 
seems like a pretty safe bet given the sheer inertia of the list above.

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Jason Petersen
Software Engineer | Citus Data
303.736.9255
ja...@citusdata.com

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