Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2020, #01; Mon, 3)
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
- Date
- Aug 4, 2020, 19:20 UTC
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- <20200804192053.GA1400936@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:58:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > I ran into issues with this, as I have several in-progress topics (not > > yet sent to the list) that touch our Makefile, and they needed updates > > to the cmake file (because it reproduces a lot of the lists and logic > > from the Makefile). > > > > The original philosophy behind putting it in contrib is that most people > > wouldn't have to care, and folks interested in cmake would be > > responsible for keeping it up to date. But the top patch makes it hard > > to ignore, because the vs-build CI job will fail. > > > > I'm not sure of the right path forward. I was definitely unenthused to > > be dealing with cmake, and the problem came up as soon as the series hit > > next. > > My hope is that if we let vs-build broken long enough, those who > want to see cmake to graduate would fix it. We can always threaten > the topic to be discarded out of 'next' after the next release if it > hasn't been fixed ;-)
That was my philosophy, too, but it's annoying in the meantime as I get a notification for "your build is broken" every time I run CI. So it becomes a game of chicken over who gets annoyed first. ;)
-Peff