Switching to premake build configuration

[FFuser]

the xcode projects are quite complicated and also contain custom deployment shell scripts that can generate deployable .DMG files with one click.
while the idea of generating project files sounds nice i doubt it works well for anything but very simple apps - i am sure xcode project files generated premake/cmake/whatever will be much worse then the files we have now.

My two cents here:

I agree that discussion of such a change should be discussed with developers. Apparently this has not been done.

Even if you wanted to "code" this, and deliver a proof-of-concept before discussion this should have been done in a separate git branch and not in the master. Only when the feature is complete and works better (or at least as good) than previous iteration (being just scons), it should have been merged (so "make install" works, tested by multiple people, no linking problems, ...)
I even wonder why the project switched to git if not using this workflow...?
Maybe this is just a transition problem and all developers will change to this workflow soon.

At last I think CMake is the way to go (I never heard of premake, although it seems to be the same idea, so it may be a perfect fit)
I don't know what the state is of the XCode generator of CMake (or premake), but I'm pretty sure creating deployable DMG's will be possible with it.
Even if this is not possible, why not improving CMake / Premake (or just sending bug reports / feature requests), to help others who want to use CMake with XCode. You also help yourself when you want to create your next project: You just have to write your CMake, instead of recreating your XCode project.