[cmake-developers] ReactOS: Important filed bug reports went to backlog en masse

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Sun Aug 12 08:10:02 EDT 2012


I certainly did not mean to offend anyone with my en masse move of
issues to 'backlog' -- thanks for speaking up.

I would like to make sure that you guys can continue to use CMake for
ReactOS. I've got to run right now, but I will reply again tomorrow
when I have some more time. Do you have time for a quick phone call or
Google+ hangout this week sometime, so I can understand better what
your issues are? (And why nobody adopted them when they appeared on
the mailing list in the form of your bug reports...)


Thanks,
David Cole


On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 9:42 PM, Amine Khaldi <amine.khaldi at reactos.org> wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I would like to mention that many (if not all) the bugs coming from us
> (ReactOS) got into backlog.
>
> We're an operating system project, we try to file bug report only for issues
> that block us, so we do not tend to file trivial bugs.
>
> It would be great if the CMake folks tried to pay the attention that our
> issues deserve.. after all, we started using CMake because we read many
> positive reviews about the excellent support.
>
> Unfortunately, we're not able to use the VS generators due to the lack of
> support for ASM preprocessed files. We're not able to pass flags to C/C++
> source files without affecting the rc (resource) files. We're forced to do
> many ugly workarounds for the latter, and we found no solution for the
> former, and these are just examples.
>
> All these mentioned issues got into the backlog, so basically we're left
> off, without any help to get them solved.
>
> I'm writing this hopefully as a call to the CMake folks/community to address
> our issues, that we've been waiting release after release to get them fixed,
> only to find out that they ended up in backlog now.
>
> I'm writing this in the hopes of finding "a CMake developer who has the
> bandwidth to take it on, and ferry a fix through to our 'next' branch for
> dashboard testing".
>
> Regards,
> Amine.
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