[cmake-developers] [PATCH 0/3] The CMake Ninja generator.

[Nicolas Desprès]

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> On 11/11/2011 9:36 PM, Peter Collingbourne wrote:
>
>  Note that this generator is *nix only (it relies on POSIX shell
>> functionality), and will only be built on *nix platforms.  I am not
>> interested in Windows support, but I understand that others have
>> expressed an interest in adding support.
>>
>>  How much of the POSIX shell stuff can be done with cmake -E stuff?  It
> would be good to use as little POSIX stuff as possible as someday when
> someone does the inevitable windows port it is easier...
>
>
Too much in my opinion. Specially the && operator of the shell. Using cmake
-E is the first step. I am planning to suggest an evolution of Ninja to fix
this issue. Actually, it is the main issue which stop me while writing the
beginning of this generator.

Cheers,

-- 
Nicolas Desprès
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