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Re:An Introduction to Modern CMake by ridiculous_fish on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:02PM (#22578667)
Writing Makefiles by hand is great for small projects. But make becomes unmanageable for large projects, and is bad at dealing with system and compiler differences.
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Re:An Introduction to Modern CMake by einpoklum on Sunday March 15, 2020 @09:22AM (#22583340)
It is not "great" for small projects, because:

1. Small projects also have dependencies

2. Small projects need to be build on multiple platforms too

3. It is more verbose, and at the same time more obscure, than writing a CMakeLists.txt (typically).

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