Re: WIP: About CMake v2

From: Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Craig Ringer <craig(dot)ringer(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
Cc: YUriy Zhuravlev <u(dot)zhuravlev(at)postgrespro(dot)ru>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: About CMake v2
Date: 2016-11-09 02:12:10
Message-ID: CAB7nPqRjA1w=Bav0NwWR_8dbdZKAQogcb-6xVCnfM5N_01L+kA@mail.gmail.com
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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.
--
Michael

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