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

> On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:35:40PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> * ss/cmake-build (2020-06-26) 8 commits
>>   (merged to 'next' on 2020-08-03 at a0d70165c1)
>>  + ci: modification of main.yml to use cmake for vs-build job
>>  + cmake: support for building git on windows with msvc and clang.
>>  + cmake: support for building git on windows with mingw
>>  + cmake: support for testing git when building out of the source tree
>>  + cmake: support for testing git with ctest
>>  + cmake: installation support for git
>>  + cmake: generate the shell/perl/python scripts and templates, translations
>>  + Introduce CMake support for configuring Git
>> 
>>  Originally merged to 'next' on 2020-08-01
>> 
>>  CMake support to build with MSVC for Windows bypassing the Makefile.
>> 
>>  Will merge to 'master'.
>>  cf. https://github.com/git/git/runs/892824895
>
> 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.