[CMake-Promote] Interesting blogs and random comments about CMake

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi, 
 
> Von: "Brandon J. Van Every" <bvanevery at gmail.com> 
 
... 
> >http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1668 
> >   
> > 
> How general purpose is am2cmake? 
 
Quite general purpose I'd say with some special features for KDE's 
special Makefile.am syntax. I'll post a polished version somewhere soon. 
  
> "I didn't want to learn a full scripting language (python). ...cmake is  
> simple and has a limited syntax, so it's easy to learn" strikes me as 
> an important point to play up when challenging the SCons crowd.  Of 
> course,  
> a lot of hackers are going to hurl back, "So what?"  These are the  
> people that like Python just fine, or actually like learning new  
 
People who know and like python will use scons. 
IMO scons is the only real competition to cmake. 
Drawbacks of scons: 
-can't generate project files for IDE's 
-requires python knowledge 
-requires python installed 
-configure stuff supported ? 
 
> On the other hand, CMake won't be easier to learn than SCons if the  
> documentation and tutorials don't improve. 
 
Actually IMO the cmake documentation is good. At least much better than 
the autohell docs. And better than the scons docs two years ago, don't 
know about scons docs today. 
I could find everything I need on the cmake man page and the short cmake 
introduction on the cmake web page. What was missing was an overview over 
the cmake variables, this exists now in the wiki. 
  
Bye 
Alex 
 

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