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Instead of adding features, I wish they could invest in cmake's documentation. It's really subpart and does not help users to get a clear idea of how some basic
by rualca 6y ago
Instead of adding features, I wish they could invest in cmake's documentation. It's really subpart and does not help users to get a clear idea of how some basic features work, neither do they present examples of how Cmake is designed to be used.
I feel cmake's appalling docs are the main reason why so many Cmake projects are god-awful messes that even fail to try to follow the "modern Cmake" conventions which is modern in name only as it's already made available since the inception of Cmake 3.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoHear hear. CMake scripts should be very boring and driven by boilerplate and design-patterns, rather than each having a character of their own. I rambled about this a while ago over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24203172