On 17 May 2014 at 3:05, Sergey Popov wrote:
It may just be that CMake is chosen for C++ projects you follow in the future. If so, you might still find room for interesting things in the build system world. For example, there is currently a shake vs ninja benchmark battle [1] going on where someone like you could contribute.
I'm not interested in performance alone. I want to work on generalizing nodes beyond just files and aliases.
Ah, exactly the topic of my talk tomorrow. You will almost certainly find its accompanying position paper of interest: http://arxiv.org/abs/1405.3323 It proposes we eliminate build systems by making the entire thing a graph database compiling per-type rather than per-file. Niall -- ned Productions Limited Consulting http://www.nedproductions.biz/ http://ie.linkedin.com/in/nialldouglas/