On Tuesday, February 7, 2017 9:23:22 AM EST William Hubbs wrote: > On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:22:22AM +0100, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > > I'd recommend to jump a bandwagon and switch to CMake. > > > > Yes, it's ugly in certain areas, has its quirks but whoever switches to it > > ones, never goes back, and not because of technical debt being too big. > > > > Also because I can help with it (and a lot of folks can), while Meson is > > still largely unknown. > > Thanks for the offer, but i have no interest in CMake. I have heard from > multiple sources how difficult it is to work with.
I did not find CMake difficult to work with at all. I use it for jem[1], a port of java-config to C. Though my main reason for CMake vs Autotools was in things like ability to make a rpm, deb, and tarball easily. Things I did not need to do on Gentoo with an ebuild. Yes that can be done in Autotools, just I found it easier to do via CMake. Now CMake does have dependencies, and for that reason I would avoid for openrc. The less dependencies the better. Eventually I may move jem back to Autotools for the same reason. I do use Autotools for asspr[2]. CMake would be overkill for asspr. I would experiment with CMake yourself and form your own opinion. I really do not think it is difficult. I have not heard anyone say it was difficult. Just the opposite. 1. https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/jem 2. https://github.com/Obsidian-StudiosInc/asspr -- William L. Thomson Jr.
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