> What value does CMake create in the end product? Can you sell it for more than X$ on the basis of having been built with Cmake? Usually no. That is true for

> What value does CMake create in the end product? Can you sell it for more than X$ on the basis of having been built with Cmake? Usually no. That is true for every technological choice. > In absolute terms every build tool can only retract effort away from the activities that produce the value, i.e.software features. Again you seem to think that build systems don't contain software features. I don't think that this is true. My build system helps me to refactor things that I would have to do by hand otherwise, and which are pretty project-specific. For instance scanning subprojects for their license information and generating a .cpp with that info, looking for all uses of a particular token and listing the files using that token for them to be included somewhere, etc etc.