> Did you know that cmake started as a Makefile generator? Why do you think people need that? I like make myself, but I’m honest enough to acknowledge that the

> Did you know that cmake started as a Makefile generator? Why do you think people need that? I like make myself, but I’m honest enough to acknowledge that the whole autotools suite (autoconf/automake) was born to, essentially, generate makefiles. Which is not 100% make’s complexity’s fault though… the toolchains have their own complexity (even more so when a project must build across platforms)…