Re: CMake build anyone?

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>]

> Fair enough. But please note that I was not proposing replacing the
> current autoconf build with cmake (although some users could benefit
> from having a cmake build on Unix, see the feature list linked above.)

I understand it, but I think it'd only work if the intention is to
replace the current build system (and not just eventually), otherwise
it'd mean maintaining two very different build systems, which doesn't
sound much better than what we have now.

> My proposal was motivated by my impression about the Windows build being
> hard to maintain and I thought that the developers could be interested
> on an alternative that removes most of the burden so they can focus
> their efforts elsewhere. Since only Juanma expressed some interest and
> other people objected, let's forget the proposal and move on.

As I said, I think it's a good idea, but Emacs being what it is, it'll
probably only end up doing it many years from now (just like it took
ages for Emacs to adopt ANSI C, and to fully make use of autoconf).


        Stefan