[CMake-Promote] an anti-cmake rant

[Brandon Van Every]

On Jan 15, 2008 8:35 PM, Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 15, 2008 7:30 PM, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > Where do you see that ?
> > add_executable(hello main.c) still works.
>
> I don't think anyone cares about building trivial projects.  I just
> see lots of homebrewed build tools by guys who think they have better
> ideas about how to build small projects.  I can't see their work
> scaling, and I don't think they're really dealing seriously with the
> problems of large scale build systems.

I forgot to finish this thought.  They can't do the big job, but
they're experimenting with the small job.  As such, they display the
features of "disruptive technologies."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_technology  In particular,
"low-end disruption."


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every