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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by IshKebab on Sunday January 10, 2021 @06:31AM (#25713630)
> How do you propose CMake supports all those build generators without doing this?

I propose that it doesn't support build generators. It should do the build itself, like QBS did.

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Re:Ray Tracing in pure CMake by rleigh on Sunday January 10, 2021 @07:12AM (#25713922)
This would remove one of the key selling points of CMake, the fact that it is "glue" to permit development with any build tool or IDE of choice.

It's great that one person can be using Visual Studio on Windows while another uses CLion on MacOS and another uses Eclipse or Emacs on Linux, all working on the same codebase. It's a huge benefit for cross-platform tooling-independent development.

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