On Friday 07 November 2008 11:02:37 Jed Brown wrote: > I had hoped that by raising the issue of widespread brokenness, there > would be some response from CMake developers about ways to fix it. It > seems like I'm still at the stage of convincing people that there is a > real problem. This is why I'm concerned that `cross-platform' may > actually mean `Ubuntu/Windows/Mac' in practice. I'm no Kitware employee but I do feel the need to defend CMake.
I've used CMake on Debian, Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware, Gentoo, Windows XP, Windows Vista, OSX 10.4, OSX 10.5 and custom-rolled Linux distributions. I've used it across four architectures and four compilers. I've introduced it into two companies I've worked for and use it in my spare-time KDE development. I've never had any of the problems you described. That's not to say they don't exist but I think you're doing the classic software engineer thing (that I've been guilty of more than a few times) of assuming your specific circumstances are the norm and that if you have any problems then the application is broken for everyone else. This simply isn't the case. I haven't seen any of this "widespread brokenness" you claim. You seem to say that CMake doesn't work nicely for a specific use-case you have and it may not but there's no need to basically troll the whole project because of shortcomings in a niche environment. CMake may not be perfect but it's the best damned cross-platform build system I've seen for C/C++ by a _long_ way. -- Cheers, Mike Arthur http://mikearthur.co.uk/ _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list CMake@cmake.org http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
