<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Oct 28, 2011, at 10:25 AM, Daniel Dunbar wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Overall, I believe that my system will *reduce the work* and *improve<br>the experience* of the majority of LLVM developers. The cost we are<br>paying for this gain is (a) my time, and (b) a python dependency. As I<br>said before, we already have (b) for running tests, which no one who<br>has complained about this have given credence to. In my opinion,<br>although this adds a new system, but it is actually reducing<br>complexity because the system becomes (a) better documented, (b) more<br>understandable, and (c) more explicit.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>FWIW as "the other guy who works on the build system that isn't cmake"</div><div>I'm all for this. I have no problem with a python dependency and ultimately</div><div>replacing two build systems with a single well documented and more</div><div>understandable one is such a worthy goal that some short term change is worth it. </div><div><br></div><div>-eric</div></body></html>