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Kitware have a lot to apologise for.

• shadowmint 12y ago
  A lot of people don't like cmake. ...but you categorically cannot argue that Kitware has single handed transformed the entire C++ build infrastructure landscape; the brand new cross platform IDE by JetBrains (CLion) uses cmake as their primary build method. You have to tip your hat to the fact that KitWare been fantastically successful in their mission. Like it or not, it's a fact. Cmake is here to stay. Make could have been a contender, but the only people who cared enough about it to actually build anything useful with it, built automake; which is a piece of stinking rubbish, not portable, and has a syntax even more arcane than make OR cmake. Maybe if android and the google make toolchain had arrived 4 years earlier, we'd be somewhere else now, but the gate is closed now. Make is obsolete as a build system for a modern project that has to, you know, actually compile on multiple targets.
• rquirk 12y ago
  I disagree, and think they've done a great job. The CMake devs have always been really responsive to bigish projects that find CMake to be almost-but-not-quite good enough for their project, adding in missing autotools features or other semi-commonly used bits and bobs. They manage to keep up with all the churn in the world of compiled software, whereas it would be so easy to let a tool like CMake bitrot. Old mistakes have sensible deprecation policies too, so they have managed to avoid the accumulation of cruft that could have brought it to a standstill.