James E. King, III created THRIFT-4037:
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Summary: As a developer, I want to use a single build system for
thrift to make development easier
Key: THRIFT-4037
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4037
Project: Thrift
Issue Type: Epic
Components: Build Process
Affects Versions: 0.10.0
Environment: All
Reporter: James E. King, III
Assignee: James E. King, III
Priority: Critical
h1. Background
The thrift project currently carries two build systems. The original build
system is based on autoconf and is used to build a complete deliverable
including extensive cross-language testing.
The other build system was introduced a few years ago, with roots tracing back
to THRIFT-797. CMake allows thrift to build natively on multiple platforms -
unix and windows. Autoconf is no longer under active development with the last
release in 2012, and it does not allow for native windows builds using native
tools that are used by a majority of consumers.
Maintaining two build systems for a project incurs a lot of overhead. Every
change that touches the build system needs to be done twice, in two completely
different ways. We need twice as many CI jobs to verify that all of the builds
are working, whereas with a single cmake build environment we could likely use
a single CI build job per platform that does everything using the docker image
on linux and appveyor on windows.
h1. Proposal
We should officially deprecate autoconf in favor of cmake, and continue (more
aggressively) the effort to make the cmake build environment as functional as
the autoconf build environment. During this transition, folks will be required
to make changes to both build systems (which are proven out mostly through the
Travis CI build jobs; only CMake is used on AppVeyor).
h1. Acceptance Criteria
# autoconf build environment is removed
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