Re: Anyone for CMake?

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 10:07:16 +0100
John Emmas <johne53 tiscali co uk> wrote:

> I just wondered if there's ever been any discussion in the *nix
> community about moving away from Autoconf/Automake in favour of CMake?
> I guess this topic must have come up several times already, so what
> were considered to be the pros and cons?  At first glance, CMake seems
> to be a lot more modern and certainly a lot friendlier towards the
> other major platforms, as well as *nix.

Did you read this article? It seems to sum up the issue quite nicely:

http://lwn.net/Articles/188693/

The discussions are interesting too.

John