[geos-devel] RFC7: Discontinue use of autotools

[Even Rouault]

On lundi 11 janvier 2021 10:09:58 CET Roger Bivand wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Jan 2021, Sean Gillies wrote:
> > Hi Roger and all,
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 8, 2021 at 12:25 PM Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> ...
> 
> >> The RFC mentions the preferences of commmitters; this is wrong-headed,
> >> because the actually useful feedback comes from those in R/Python/etc.
> >> who
> >> may be able to find regressions, but who will stop testing before release
> >> if building from the repo or from source in general gets harder. Then you
> >> risk making releases which cause havoc downstream, because you are making
> >> it harder for people like me to build from source.  What the committers
> >> prefer will decide this, but it isn't wise.
> >> 
> >> Roger
> > 
> > I can't speak for any other downstream projects or packagers, but the
> > Shapely project won't be terribly inconvenienced by a complete switch to
> > Cmake.
> 
> Sean: Thanks, this is useful.
> 
> Cmake proponents: apart from the reservations raised by packagers, why for
> me does rm -rf _build not lead to
> 
> mkdir _build && cd _build && cmake .. && make
> 
> taking the same time when repeated compare to the first time through?

Operating system level I/O caching maybe.

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