On Sun, May 15, 2011 at 7:20 AM, William Tanksley, Jr <wtanksle...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> I've heard very good things about CMake. You might want to explain a
> little about why you chose it and what it can do for us, though, aside
> from the obvious one of supporting MSVC (if that were all it did, it
> wouldn't be worth keeping around, since it would just bitrot). I see
> someone else is asking that question. I recall CMake has some
> advantages, but you must know them better than I.
Although I am not the most qualified person to comment on this due beinga
CMake starter myself, I can see
few advantages
Out of source builds, less clutter on the source tree
you can have different builds side by side, you may build crawl ,say,
with EUCLIDIAN
and test it, whatever ,without needing to rebuilt your original
configuration
It can create makefiles or project files (MSVC,XCode, Kdevelop etc...)
.so you
use a tool IDE you are comfortable with.
I've found it easy to understand compared to makefile.It has a very
simple syntax
that might look verbose though, so your mileage may vary.
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