Re: [PATCH 10/11] Add MSVC Project file

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 17, 2009, 22:10 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0908180005250.8306@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <3af572ac0908171423ye08efa8m6666ddb922d5ee92@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

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> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Johannes
> Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > You are putting an undue burden on the already overloaded maintainer.
> 
> Sorry, but I'm a bit lost now. What maintainer are we talking about now? 
> Junio?

I was talking about me, as maintainer of msysGit.

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> As I would be providing a turn-key CMake build system, the only burden I 
> would be putting on the maintainer would be learning CMake.
> 
> Given that I'm providing a comprehensive (100+ slides) CMake tutorial
> ( http://www.elpauer.org/stuff/learning_cmake.pdf ) , which I use in
> my CMake workshops, I think I'm making that burden a bit lighter.
> 
> If the next git conference is somewhere in Europe, I could also fly
> there and we'd have a CMake tutorial, if people would feel more
> comfortable that way.

This is exactly what I mean by burden. Why do I have to learn a new system, and suffer the hassle of integrating it into the current build system, which works quite well thankyouverymuch?

Never run a changing system.

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> > Well, let's see if you can provide a /src/cmake/release.sh that 
> > compiles CMake from scratch, and _then_ I'll look into CMake again.
> 
> Again, I'm a bit lost. What '/src/cmake/release.sh' are we talking about 
> now? Would that be part of CMake or git ?

Maybe this:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/126286

and this:

http://repo.or.cz/w/msysgit.git?a=blob;f=src/curl/release.sh;h=d7516cbf6e92af4de138ce405d88561fbe1e92a8;hb=968336eddac1874c56cd934d10783566af5a3e26

helps.

To quote myself (as you appear to have missed that):

	Having said that, a CMake-based system _in addition_ to what is 
	tried-and-tested to be able to support all those different kinds of 
	Microsoft Visual Studio (took me 3 attempts to write that without a 
	Freudian) would be welcome, _if_ you succeed in making it compile out
	of the box on msysGit.

	By out-of-the-box I mean: you send a patch that adds 
	/src/cmake/release.sh, I apply the patch (after briefly scanning 
	that it	does not install a backdoor on a machine that is not even
	mine, and therefore will never see even a single of my passwords
	typed in), run it, it compiles installs and commits cmake and cmake
	works.

Short form: if you make it easy for me, I will look at it again, if you make it hard on me, you will just have done to me what you now try to avoid yourself: wasted time.

Ciao, Dscho