[CMake] Waf build tool

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>:

> On Dec 16, 2007 1:11 PM, Gonzalo Garramuño <ggarra at advancedsl.com.ar> wrote:
>>
>> In summary, thanks.  But, no thanks.  With all those problems I did not
>> even bother checking the speed.
>
> I got a chuckle out of their self-description on
> http://www.ohloh.net/tags/build/make , which one might view as a short
> list of open source build tools.  "Though it comes last in the arena
> of the build systems, we believe that Waf is a vastly superior
> alternative to its competitors (Autotools, Scons, Cmake, Ant, etc) for
> building software, and especially for open-source projects...."  Yep,
> that's why it's in the top tier of Popular tools!  :-)  There's
> something to be said for tooting your own horn, but not to the extent
> of making oneself soft or complacent about a competitor's
> capabilities.  I think the day that CMake has really "won" the build
> tool wars, we'll be seeing shelfs full of books at Barnes & Noble and
> tons of jobs listing it as a "must have" skill.  I wonder where Waf
> thinks it is, relative to all of that.  Happy with the $0 "we really
> don't have to bother with Windows" open source market?

It's not only waf does not care about Windows but they explicitly do  
not want to support it. That's the reason why KDE4 is using CMake  
instead of SCons or waf.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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