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Re:Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake by wyldfire on Sunday February 03, 2019 @01:49PM (#19071371)
SCons in particular is along the lines of the latter, in that its. But it never really caught on, IMO.

Probably one of the biggest features in a configure/build/packaging software package is ubiquity, IMO. Ideally C/C++ would have had a prescribed-but-not-required thing like cargo/setuptools/go get/etc. IMO CMake is probably the least bad offering these days.

Re:Everything You Never Wanted to Know About CMake by jacobush on Sunday February 03, 2019 @02:51PM (#19071780)
I read about scons, loved it, tried to use it, gave up. Tried cmake, found it workable but super confusing. Went back to make.