Hi, On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > 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. What? I beg your _pardon_? > 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. Well, I heard some pretty different opinions, and they are from quite recently. In any case, before you get CMake to compile in msysGit, I think we do not need to talk about getting problems solved. Ciao, Dscho