Re: [Evolution-hackers] Switching from Autotools to CMake for core evolution products

[Milan Crha <mcrha redhat com>]

On Wed, 2016-10-05 at 12:28 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> Out of interest, why?

        Hi,
seems to be better than autotools, gives more freedom and easily allows
the sources to be built much faster than with autotools (it builds here
in ~1/3 of the time which uses autotools, still using "Unix
Makefiles"). I know it's caused mostly by not having one giant
Makefile.am, but this way it's easier (at least for me).

With the "gives more freedom" I think of different generators, which
CMake offers quite many [1].
        Bye,
        Milan

[1] https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.6/manual/cmake-generators.7.html
    Note it's for version 3.6, while the required CMake version is 3.0