Hi,

On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Sebastian Schuberth wrote:

> On Sep 16, 10:20 am, Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > These scripts generate projects for the MSVC IDE (.vcproj files) or
> > QMake (.pro files), based on the output of a 'make -n MSVC=1 V=1' run.
> >
> > This enables us to simply do the necesarry changes in the Makefile, and you
> > can update the other buildsystems by regenerating the files. Keeping the
> > other buildsystems up-to-date with main development.
> 
> I know I'm a little late with my comments as this patch set has
> already been merged to master. However, for future reference I'd like
> to point out that something similar could be archived by using e.g.
> CMake, and only maintaining the CMake project file. I'm not suggesting
> to actually switch to CMake at this time, but I wanted to point out
> that a guy called Pau Garcia i Quiles already seems to have created a
> preliminary CMakeLists.txt file for Git [1], and also tried to build
> Git for Windows using his CMake-generated MSVC project files.
> 
> [1] "CMake-ifying git", http://www.elpauer.org/?p=324

We actually discussed this, and I challenged Pau to provide a recipe (a la 
/src/openssl/release.sh) that builds, installs and commits CMake.

There was no response after that challenge.

Ciao,
Dscho