On 5/22/23, Tomek CEDRO <to...@cedro.info> wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2023 at 2:12 AM Brennan Ashton wrote: >> On Fri, May 19, 2023, 3:23 PM Tomek CEDRO wrote: >> > I am thinking about this. "If it works don't fix it" comes to my mind. >> > Current build system is amazingly simple coherent and fast. Building >> > firmware takes 17 seconds. Why change it? >> > Such change will flip everything upside down. Adds lots of work and >> > even more possible problems. >> > What would be the real benefit? >> > How would it improve that 17 seconds? >> > I think the practical presentation and comparison of results (i.e. ide >> > integration, ci automation) along with numbers (i.e. build time) needs >> > to take place before making any decisions. >> >> I very much disagree. The current build system is much slower with a ton >> of >> boilerplate that is difficult to maintain and make cross platform. Are we >> building an RTOS or reinventing the modern build tools? >> >> Infact I have pull requests unmerged because the hacks we have in place >> break and I have very little interest in tacking on even more hacks when >> we >> could just not worry about it with cmake. >> >> I would encourage those that thing this complicates things to actually >> look >> at the pull requests for cmake and see how much cleaner it is. > > Thanks Brennan, this is a solid pro for cmake, we need to create > detailed list pros and cons, verify in practice, to get better proof > based RFC analysis. > > I can see that this decision will be quite controversial and it cannot > lead to any more split in the community. > > I have created a simple page at CWIKI with an initial list of impacts, > pros, cons. Please update folks. I have updated Proposals name to > NuttX RFC Proposals. Big changes like that can be processed that way > as RFC and documented on cwiki. > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NUTTX/NuttX+RFC+0004%3A+Add+CMake+build+system >
I think it is better to keep the documentation in a single place: https://nuttx.apache.org/docs/latest/contributing/index.html We're moving those documentations from confluence to our internal repository. So, that could be nice if you could send patches to Documentation/ directory directly. BR, Alan
