Re: What's cooking in git.git (Aug 2020, #01; Mon, 3)

> On Tue, Aug 04, 2020 at 11:58:43AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
> > > 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. ;)