On Mon, 2015-10-26 at 22:16 -0700, Jeff Hammond wrote:
> Please do not use CMake.  My experiences with it in HPC production
> use over
> the past 5 years are so bad that I fear I may need a trigger warning
> from
> now on.  I tolerate CMake in one and only one project that I cannot
> live
> without*, but in any case where a software project adopts CMake and I
> can
> increase my overall happiness by never use that software again, I
> will do
> so.

But what is it about CMake that you find so objectionable?

I find the description language to be appalling, but CMake still beats
Autotools hands down. With JetBrains choosing it as the build framework
for CLion projects, and it allowing sane builds on OSX and Windows as
well as Linux, it is curently the least worst choice other than SCons.

Obviously there is also Tup, and now Bazel, but neither of these are
yet mainstream. Though I suspect Bazel will bully its way to being so
simply because it is a Google product.

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