Re: WIP: About CMake v2

On Tue, Nov 8, 2016 at 9:12 PM, Michael Paquier
<michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 7:54 AM, Craig Ringer
> <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> wrote:
>> On 9 Nov. 2016 06:37, "Yury Zhuravlev" <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru> wrote:
>>> This approach I see only in Postgres project and not fully understood.
>>> Can you explain me more what reasons led to this approach?
>>
>> It's predictable. The default has the same result for everyone. I quite like
>> it myself.
>
> +1. Let's tell to the system what we want him to do and not let him
> guess what we'd like to be done or it will get harder to test and
> develop code for all kind of code paths with #ifdef's. That's one step
> away from Skynet.

Exaggerate much?

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