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

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 at 20:14, Sterling Augustine <saugustine at google.com>
wrote:

> To make matters worse, our CMake files are not simple, and do not do all
>> of the things we want them to do in the way we understand completely. There
>> is a lot of kludge that we carry and with that comes in two categories: the
>> things that we hate and would love to fix, and the things that are fixes
>> that we have no idea are there. The former are the reasons why people want
>> to start a new build system, the latter is why they soon realise that was a
>> mistake (insert XKCD joke here).
>>
>
> It wouldn't be starting a new build system, it would be making a
> pre-existing, already extremely well functioning one, available to more
> people.
>
> I can definitely see folks who use cmake not wanting more hassle--that may
> be a valid reason not to do it. But "it won't work" or "it's hard to keep
> up" or "it's too complicated" seem well refuted by a multi-year existence
> proof.
>

That is definitely not what I meant here.
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