Re: [PATCH 0/8] CMake build system for git

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Sibi Siddharthan <sibisiddharthan.github@gmail.com> writes:

> The goal would be to maintain a CMake build for Git keeping it in sync
> with the Makefile.
> The Makefile is not going to be replaced at all. The CMake script for
> now only supports Linux and Windows.
> It does not support BSD, Solaris and others, whereas the Makefile does
> support them.

So you are doing (1).  I already said that I feel that engineering
burden to divert resources for CMake support would be unacceptably
high.

Whenever any of our developers need to add source files, Makefile
configuration knobs that people can add to config.mak, etc., you are
forcing them to figure out where in the CMakefile to add them or
devise ways to allow builders who do not use config.mak (because
they use CMake) to do similar tweaks.

Any patch that is acceptable to the current project would become
unacceptable because they lack updates to CMake part, but I suspect
we do not have enough people who are so much devoted to give a good
review if updates to CMake part are added.  And it is unclear why it
would be beneficial to slow our existing developers down by forcing
them to become familiar with CMake.

So..., I am not just "still not convinced", but I am even more
convinced that we do not want this series, after thinking about it
longer.

Thanks.