Hi,
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 1:22 AM, Christian Heimes <li...@cheimes.de> wrote: > Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: > >> 1. It can autogenerate the Visual Studio project files instead of >> needing them to be maintained separately > > I'm familiar with the Unix and the Windows build system. More than a > year ago I went to a great deal of work to migrate the Windows builds > from VS 7.1 to VS 9.0. I'm in doubt that any automatic tool can create > configuration files that are as good as our hand made files. This of course depends on the definition of "as good as" ;-) Well, I have met Windows-only developers which use CMake because it is able to generate project files for different versions of Visual Studio, and praise it for that. > The VS project files support debug, non debug and profile guided > optimization builds for X86 and AMD64 including cross compilation of > AMD64 binaries. CMake supports different build configurations. > The project files are using multiple inheritance to > avoid duplication of options. No idea. Maybe it wouldn't be necessary ? With CMake you can just generate different buildtrees with different options, so you can get different behaviour in these trees. > The differences between Windows and Unix builds are fairly large, too. > On Windows lots of modules are built in and the remaining Python > extensions are build with VS directly. On Unix most modules are build as > shared libraries using distutils and setup.py. That's right. Is there actually a real reason for this ? When I posted the cmake files for python in 2007 I think they also worked for Windows,, but I didn't test this that much. > In my opinion any change to an automated system is a waste of precious > developer times and makes our Windows support worse. Seriously, I don't think so. In KDE, our (small group of) Windows developers are the ones which appreciate CMake most. At Kitware, support for Windows and MSVC is a primary feature of CMake, not an afterthought. Alex _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
