On Sat, Jul 27, 2024 at 09:23:54PM +0200, Daniel Sahlberg wrote: > Do you a specific preference regarding the change (does it affect your > ability to continue providing the Subversion package, do you have any > timing requirements etc.)? > > Do you have experience from other projects switching to CMake (dos and > don'ts) that can improve our switch?
Speaking with a downstream hat on, I can't remember if I've dealt with any packages converting to CMake, but a few thoughts: - no bias particularly for or against CMake, generally "if it works for upstream, we'll make it work for us" - build times can be a big +ve for CMake with highly parellizable complex builds which distro maintainers love, but SVN did this more or less perfectly already. Some of the language bindings historically had "make -j" issues so if that could be fixed with CMake, it's a +ve - soname handling is very important and SVN's use of libtool was idiosyncratic anyway, so, doing it better with CMake would be another selling point Can't think of much else. Regards, Joe
