Hi Patrick
On 16/09/2024 08:50, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
I sometimes wonder whether we should move on and discard one of the
three build systems we have: plain GNU Make, autoconf and CMake. And
from these three I'd rather want to throw the autoconf-based thing away:
- The Makefile is probably what most people use, so throwing it out is
a no-go right now.
- CMake is really useful because it has support for IDEs and
alternatives to GNU Make like Ninja, which builds Git way faster
than Makefiles. It also has support for out-of-tree builds, which I
find rather useful.
So is there a path forward to move CMake support out of contrib/, make
it an officially supported way to build Git and then throw away the
autoconf-based infra? I'm not the biggest fan of CMake myself and very
much prefer Meson, but we already have it wired up and thus I'm trying
to be at least a bit pragmatic.
We seem to get fairly regular bug reports about the configure script,
presumably because most contributors are using the Makefile. It would
certainly be nice if we could get the CMake support into a state where
we could consider dropping the configure script.
Best Wishes
Phillip
