Re: [Gnucap-devel] CMake WIP

[al davis]

On Saturday 27 July 2013, Kevin Zheng wrote:
> My original intention was to try to have CMake play nice with
> autotools; that way when the dust settles users can pick
> their favorite build system and use it. I suppose I should
> do a big merge when autotools is no longer WIP instead?

cmake-WIP should be based on "master", which changes slowly.

Then when it is ready, it a simple matter to push it to master.

It is not known now which of autotools-WIP or cmake-WIP will be 
ready first.

Whatever you base it on, you need to rebase when the base 
changes.  If you base on something that is changing fast, you 
can go nuts doing that.

It is important to keep the WIP branches focused.  If you are 
working on more than one extension, keep them separate.  This 
has been a problem in the past, when there is a fork and we try 
to incorporate the changes.  A single branch has some that are 
ready and some that are not, so I need to cherry-pick, and run 
into issues.  The result is that there are enhancements in 
existence that are not pushed to main because they are shared 
with others that are not.