Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2

On 16/05/2014 2:35 PM, Sergey Popov wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2014 14:07:36 -0400 Sohail Somani wrote:

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I say a big fat yes to CMake. I love the elegance of bjam but CMake + Ninja is ridiculous. CMake is elegant in its own way. I'd say big fat no to cmake. It's as silly as autotools if not more so. I'm tired of makefile generators and wouldn't contribute to any project requiring me to using them. I don't care if it's ninja or GNU make.

I had the same ideological revulsion to CMake years ago so I can empathize with your position. I had very impolite names for it. However, having moved more than one project over, productivity is much improved all across. There are definitely quirks but those quirks are usually well documented in my experience. Sohail