[CMake-Promote] an anti-cmake rant

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Tue Jan 15 19:30:40 EST 2008


On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2008/01/06/im-not-an-happy
>-maintainer-working-with-cmake
>
> I could respond to this guy's blog entry, but I thought I'd ask what

Did that for you :-)

> you folks make of it first.  This is certainly a case of someone who's
> very unhappy about CMake.  What is he right about?  What is he just
> pissing and moaning about, because he doesn't know his way around? 

He doesn't know his way around, I won't speculate on why.

> drill?  Is he biased towards small software projects rather than large
> software projects?  Is CMake becoming biased towards large projects,
> and in danger of losing small guys that just want something simple
> that works? 

Where do you see that ?
add_executable(hello main.c) still works.

> I mean, I lost Chicken Scheme that way.

Details ?

Alex



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