On 5/19/23, Gregory Nutt <spudan...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 5/19/2023 10:25 AM, Lwazi Dube wrote: >> Alan, >> >> Can you summarize? I have not been following this PR. Is make going away? >> >> Thanks, >> >> -Lwazi >> >> On Fri, 19 May 2023 at 11:47, Alan C. Assis <acas...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> While PR #6718 is waiting to get merged, please take a look: >>> >>> https://makefiletutorial.com >>> >>> BR, >>> >>> Alan > > The decision to switch from GNU Make to CMake is highly controversial. > Many people are wildly in favor and a large number are strong opposed. > This is a change that must be brought before the PMC for a vote before > any action is taken. > > Special rules apply to code change votes. We don't often do votes on > code changes. But such votes are critical in order to serve the > community with fairness. > >
Lwazi, I think Greg summarized it well. This CMake is a long date discussion and it already created wounds in our community (we "lost" a great contributor/developer that proposed and submitted the initial patches to support CMake). I don't strong opinion about Makefile or CMake, the current Makefile works fine, the make advantage of CMake is it will integrated better with "modern" software that are build using CMake. Maybe others with better experience with it could give more details about its advantages and/or disadvantages. BR, Alan
