Re: Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 09:33 +0200, Milan Crha wrote:
>       Hello,
> this is a heads up that the evolution-data-server, evolution,
> evolution-ews and evolution-mapi products will switch from Autotools
> to
> CMake for the 3.23.1 release.

The email doesn't explain the most important part though. Why? Is it
faster, smaller, or better in other ways? Were other alternatives
considered (Meson,seems to be the preferred non-autotools build system
for GNOME projects)?

Cheers