Re: WIP: About CMake v2

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
> On 1/24/17 8:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
>>> Personally I think we should aim to have this in as a non default build
>>> mode in pg10 if it can be made ready, and aim to make it default in pg11 at
>>> least for Windows.
>>
>> AFAIK we haven't committed to accepting this at all, let alone trying
>> to do so on a tight schedule. And I believe there was general agreement
>> that we would not accept it as something to maintain in parallel with
>> the existing makefiles. If we have to maintain two build systems, we
>> have that already.
>
> My preferred scenario would be to replace the Windows build system by
> this first, then refine it, then get rid of Autoconf.
>
> The ideal timeline would be to have a ready patch to commit early in a
> development cycle, then get rid of the Windows build system by the end
> of it. Naturally, this would need buy-in from Windows developers.

This looks like a really good plan to me.
--
Michael