>
> Or even better: let's remove a lot of complexity and move the whole Julia
> build system to CMake.
The main advantage I see to CMake is support for Visual Studio. I would not
consider it a reduction of complexity -- CMake is very much like regexes:
now you have two problems. Or perhaps three...
set(number_problems 3 FORCE CACHE PARENT_SCOPE)
I think I saw an issue about this some time
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/11754
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Bart Janssens <[email protected]>
wrote:
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> On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 3:24 PM Isaiah Norton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm not sure if there's any good way to introspect this and trigger a
>> reconfigure from Julia's build system without adding a lot of complexity.
>>
>
> Or even better: let's remove a lot of complexity and move the whole Julia
> build system to CMake. I think I saw an issue about this some time, so I
> guess it's non-trivial, but I'd be willing to help.
>
