[llvm-dev] Contributing Bazel BUILD files similar to gn

Stefan Teleman via llvm-dev llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org
Thu Oct 29 13:02:31 PDT 2020


On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 3:57 PM Renato Golin <rengolin at gmail.com> wrote:

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> In the meantime, having those files wouldn't be the end of the world. But I fear that once we add, they'll stay there forever, and will lead to people ignoring CMake and segregating the project.

Yes that is my main concern as well.

Build systems for complex projects are ... messy. I believe that what
we have right now - with CMake - works quite well. And I am perfectly
aware of the insane amount of work that has gotten into making LLVM
quite easy to build.

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