[CMake] Ninja + CMake on a dashboard?

[Peter Collingbourne]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:41:19AM -0500, David Cole wrote:
> 2 things I'd like to see before we merge:
> 
> (1) test failures corrected on the Mac Nightly Expected dashboards
> submitting using the ninja generator
> (2) reliable dashboard submissions (even if not all tests pass) from a
> Windows machine using the ninja generator
> 
> We *could*, if popular demand is high enough, merge it in anyway and
> call it "experimental" to start with, or we could get it right all the
> way before we merge to 'master' and put it out in an official CMake
> release.

+1 on merging soon.  The generator will be disabled on Windows by
default so there is no risk of Windows users accidentally trying to
use it.  Most of the test failures on the Mac relate to Mac specific
targets (frameworks/bundles/apps) which I think most portable
applications can survive without, and in any case we can document
this missing feature in a release note or perhaps have the Ninja
generator print an error if it sees one of these targets.

Thanks,
-- 
Peter