On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Martin Sustrik <sustrik@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Bruce, Julien, > > The main reason is to ease the maintenance burden and QA. It's really hard > to keep single build system working, let alone two. > > That being said, if there are volunteers to keep CMake build system > synchronised with autotools build system, I'll be happy to hand over the > responsibility :) > > If so, I would start with adjusting our CI cluster ( > http://build.nanomsg.org/**waterfall <http://build.nanomsg.org/waterfall>) > to test CMake builds in addition to autotools builds. Adding some Windows > boxes to the cluster would help as well (CMake differs from autotools by > its ability to produce MSVC projects). There was a single working build system that worked on all platforms before. I think the question is why this actually needed to change (outside of ideological reasons). - Bruce