Re: CMake replacing Autotools?

2021-03-19 Thread Christoph Grüninger
Dear Java developers, thank you for the great discussion! > Thanks for that extensive explanation! I have nothing to contribute here. > But would like to thank you guys for the work on the build system. It's > exceptionally stable and works very well. You seem to be fine with the build system

Re: CMake replacing Autotools?

2021-03-18 Thread Christoph Grüninger
Hi Magnus, for sure, I am going to do CMake cheerleading. I think OpenJDK would profit from a change to CMake: 1. Less tools required for building: CMake + gmake/Ninja/msbuild/Xcode instead of Autotools and all the related Linux/Unix tools, that are somewhat alien to Windows and OS X. Visual

CMake replacing Autotools?

2021-03-17 Thread Christoph Grüninger
Dear Java devs, what do you think about the idea to replace Autotools by CMake? Is there any chance anybody would be interested? Would it be worth to write a feature request? Or even a JEP? If somebody is interested I could elaborate more about why I think CMake has advantages over Autotools.