[CMake-Promote] not so nice cmake comments

[a.neundorf-work at gmx.net]

On Tuesday 03 April 2007 14:05, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> > The antidote to this, is to show people why it's more expensive to
> > cobble up your own scripts, over the long haul.  If that is indeed
> > provable.  A white paper.  And, it's important to get that white paper
> > in front of a manager / decisionmaker, who can hold programmers
> > accountable for how they're evaluating.  That implies slicking up the
> > Kitware website to be manager friendly.  It should have a "Case
> > Studies" section that's easily found by top level navigation.
>
> Well, perhaps we can start with an expanded wiki section on this, and
> include some stats from places like this:
>
> http://blog.qgis.org/?q=node/16
>
> Alex are there any stats from the KDE switch?

Yes....
I'll have to search.

> If we can get the information correct in the wiki we have some software
> that can covert wiki to web pages.  This would give it a more polished
> look.  But the first step would be to create the content in the WIKI.
>
> So, if you are a linux only developer why use cmake?

1. there is only one build language, not m4+shell, plus make, etc.
2. it is dead-easy to create simple projects
3. it can create KDevelop and XCode projects, maybe more (CodeBlocks ?) in the 
future
4. it is fast
5. if you ever need to port in the future
6. KDE uses it

> Tanner has a nice article on this here http://www.linux-mag.com/id/2559/

I think I posted links to most blogs to this list.

Bye
Alex
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