On 1 Jul 2012, at 14:47, ThorstenB wrote:

> After 2.8, I'm going to add a cmake warning for builds inside the source 
> tree. Some other projects even disallow such builds (throw a 
> configuration error). Maybe we should do the same some day - and then 
> get rid of the ".gitignore" magic.

+1 to disallowing in-source builds here.

> 
> Being able to just "rm -rf" the entire build directory (or drag&drop it 
> into the trash :) ) to ensure a completely fresh build, without a need 
> to clone the git repository from scratch, is just super-convenient.

Indeed - as is having multiple build configurations in parallel - debug, 
release, shared, static...

James


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