<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 10, 2015, at 6:08 PM, Chandler Carruth <<a href="mailto:chandlerc@google.com" class="">chandlerc@google.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Rafael Espíndola <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:rafael.espindola@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">rafael.espindola@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":83d" class="a3s" style="overflow:hidden">As for the advantages, this seems to make it easier to drop the<br class="">
autoconf build, which would be a really big win for us.</div></blockquote></div><br class="">My only problem here is this: it *seems*.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">I would like concrete and specific advantages. I think we're just being way too hypothetical and vague.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra">If there are specific things that we cannot do today and could do by requiring a certain version of cmake, that would be a good discussion to have. Saying that there might be things and that they might help isn't going to get us anywhere. ;]</div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Chris provided a detailed list of desirable features for us in newer versions of CMake in this very thread:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/82824" class="">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/82824</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>And further elaborated on it:</div><div><br class=""></div><div><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/82793" class="">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/82793</a></div><div><a href="http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/83315" class="">http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.compilers.llvm.devel/83315</a></div><div><br class=""></div><div>I’m not sure what further degree of specificity you’re looking for.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>—Owen</div></body></html>