On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > >> What about having a CMake build system, which would work on every >> platform (including cross-compiling), and would produce an appropriate >> config.h and makefiles/vcproj/Eclipse projects/XCode projects/whatever >> is fit for each platform? If it's OK to include such a build system >> upstream, I'm volunteering to implement it. > > And reap in another dependency? > > First Python, then CMake, what tomorrow? Is it the month of adding > dependencies? I'd say it's the month of getting problems solved. CMake would make git a lot easier to build on Windows, particularly with Visual C++. Replace autotools with CMake and suddenly you need to maintain a single build system for every platform and compiler git supports/will support. That's a sound advantage to me. -- Pau Garcia i Quiles http://www.elpauer.org (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html