On 19 September 2013 09:59, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: > Alexander Lamaison wrote: >> On 18 September 2013 21:05, Peter Stuge <pe...@stuge.se> wrote: >> > >> > My main reason for not liking cmake is that it requires cmake to be >> > installed on every system where the code has to build. >> >> I've often heard this criticism levelled at CMake but never really >> understood it. > > It is one more build-time dependency. It's nice to keep those at a > minimum. That's IMO why we have an NMakefile & co at all, and not > just force everybody to make autotools work for them before they can > build the library.
I'm very dependency-phobic and was sceptical too at first, but in reality I was worrying about nothing. I suspect that one day these debates will seem like assembly programmers worrying that the compiler is one more build-time dependency they can do without. Alex -- Swish - Easy SFTP for Windows Explorer (http://www.swish-sftp.org) _______________________________________________ libssh2-devel http://cool.haxx.se/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/libssh2-devel
