LM wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Ken wrote:

>> Dropped openjpeg - I very much doubt that anything I ever see
>> uses it.  From memory, the current version requires cmake - I wasn't
>> willing to build that.

There are a couple of things I've found that I like about cmake.  First 
of all, it's easy to avoid polluting the source-

mkdir build && cd build && cmake ..

Passing parameters with -Dsome_long_name is a little cumbersome, but 
finding 'cmake -LA ..' which seems to be the equivalent to ./configure 
--help has helped.

Also, I bet you'd find autotools equally loathsome if you didn't have 
years of experience with it.  I especially do not like libtool.  Give 
the choice, I'd take cmake over libtool anytime.

I guess my views are affected by the fact that I used Qt for several 
years and it uses qmake.  That is closer to cmake than autotools.

   -- Bruce

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