Re: [HACKERS] WIP: About CMake v2

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 11:09 PM, Peter Eisentraut
<peter.eisentraut@2ndquadrant.com> wrote:
> On 1/24/17 8:37 AM, Tom Lane wrote:
>> Craig Ringer <craig.ringer@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>>> Personally I think we should aim to have this in as a non default build
>>> mode in pg10 if it can be made ready, and aim to make it default in pg11 at
>>> least for Windows.
>>
>> AFAIK we haven't committed to accepting this at all, let alone trying
>> to do so on a tight schedule.  And I believe there was general agreement
>> that we would not accept it as something to maintain in parallel with
>> the existing makefiles.  If we have to maintain two build systems, we
>> have that already.
>
> My preferred scenario would be to replace the Windows build system by
> this first, then refine it, then get rid of Autoconf.
>
> The ideal timeline would be to have a ready patch to commit early in a
> development cycle, then get rid of the Windows build system by the end
> of it.  Naturally, this would need buy-in from Windows developers.

This looks like a really good plan to me.
-- 
Michael