I think the CMake support has a long way to go compared with Scons (for now)
I think it can catch up quickly if more people use it and report bugs. A detailed INSTALL.cmake would help. Current cmake readme seems sketchy.
but I really like the fact that MSVC project are real projects. This has two main advantages: 1) You don't need to go back and forth to the command line to adjust rebuild options in order to speed up compilation. 2) Release and Debug modes are in the same project.
This is indeed a big advantage. I heard rumors saying scons is improving in this area but there is no sign of it yet. Anyway, the summer coding project brings scons a bunch of packaging features like building tar.gz, rpm and msi (using nsis) packages easily. I can not wait to use these features. Bo