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The basics are rarely the problem. The issue is that most any large project ends up wanting to do something slightly unusual, and things quickly get weird there
by dale_glass 4y ago
The basics are rarely the problem. The issue is that most any large project ends up wanting to do something slightly unusual, and things quickly get weird there.
Eg, you'd think downloading a file in cmake would be fairly straightforward, but it's not really.
- palata 4y agoI would question why you need to download the file from cmake.
- dale_glass 4y agoWe have a test harness, and some of the tests want test files. Committing a bunch of large binaries to git doesn't seem like the right way to go, and the files are only needed if the tests are going to be run. Now I could build the download into the test itself, but that's extra stuff that's not part of the test proper.