2011/5/16 hurcan solter <hsol...@gmail.com>
>
>
> 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.
>
> Our build system is quite bad. I haven't had the time to look at you patch,
but improving our build system can be a really good thing, thanks.
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