[CMake] Ninja + CMake on a dashboard?

[Steven Wilson]

Where does the Ninja generator currently live?   Ie which branch in the
sources, etc?   I am keen to see support for the Ninja generator on
Mac/Linux/Windows and would not mind working on it.

Thanks,

Steve

2012/3/8 Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk>

> On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 07:14:52AM +0100, Nicolas Desprès wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Clifford Yapp <cliffyapp at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> >>>>> 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.
> > >
> > >
> > > What would be involved with fixing the remaining OSX issues?  Do we
> need
> > > CMake changes, ninja changes, both...?
> > >
> > > Obviously full support would be preferable, unless it won't be
> happening for
> > > quite some time - I would agree that if non-GUI apps won't work on OSX
> it
> > > would be better to limit an activation of Ninja to those platforms
> where it
> > > will Work As Expected.
> > >
> >
> > So contrary to what I have said at the beginning of this thread. It
> > seems that merging it master will generate more bug report than
> > patches to fix the issue. If it is the case, I prefer to disable it. I
> > will try to fix them ASAP anyway.
>
> It seems that public opinion is against me.  Well, I guess we can
> disable the Ninja generator by default on Mac.  Anyone who wants to
> turn it back on should be able to use an internal CMake variable when
> building CMake.
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Peter
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