We've built a decent system here that relies on ant, make, vs_2003, .bat files, and some custom python scripts. It even works on both platforms (windows/redhat

We've built a decent system here that relies on ant, make, vs_2003, .bat files, and some custom python scripts. It even works on both platforms (windows/redhat)! </sarcasm> I've played around with CMake also, and I've found it to be the most reasonable. This is especially true if you have a diverse team with members that prefer Emacs/VI or Visual Studio and a project that needs to work natively on multiple platforms. Different people work better in different environments, and there's nothing wrong with that. It's not perfect, but I find myself saying 'WTF' less when using CMake. I have no idea why they decided to make their own little language, but its syntax is super-simple, and very well documented.