Honestly cmake is such a shitty language though. Scons is slow. CMake is almost great, but I have no idea why they went ahead and designed the _language_ the

Honestly cmake is such a shitty language though. Scons is slow. CMake is almost great, but I have no idea why they went ahead and designed the _language_ the way they did. (Lists are concatenated strings, everything is basically macro expanded, etc..) I mean, if they were trying to improve on m4 and shell script, I wouldn't exactly say they succeeded. I realize that CMake has better cross-platform support, but I can't stand using it. For small projects it's fine, but for medium- to large-sized projects it's a bigger headache than autotools imho. (That said, I explicitly don't care about Windows support, which is the only place where it really matters to have something different than autotools, and even that is not so bad with MingW and will be even better, it seems, with the coming "linux-compatible subsystem")