[CMake] Ninja: a small build system closest in spirit to Make

[Nicolas Desprès]

2011/2/10 Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp at gmail.com>:
> That does indeed look interesting.  If you can get a generator working
> I'd be very interested to see what its performance numbers look like
> and would be glad to test it out - faster building would be great :-).
>  How much work is involved to make a new generator?
>

I've never written one.  I have just contributing very few patches to
the CMake project so I don't know its internal architecture very well.
I also have to learn Ninja syntax.  I would say 15 days of work maybe.
 I don't really know.

Cheers,
Nico

> 2011/2/10 Nicolas Desprès <nicolas.despres at gmail.com>:
>
>> He speaks about it in its blog here:
>>
>> http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2011/02/ninja.html
>>
>> You can find the source code here:
>>
>> https://github.com/martine/ninja
>>
>> and the manual here:
>>
>> http://martine.github.com/ninja/manual.html
>



-- 
Nicolas Desprès