Re: [boost] Thoughts on Boost v2

On 16/05/2014 3:54 PM, Sergey Popov wrote:

On Fri, 16 May 2014 14:58:18 -0400 Sohail Somani wrote:

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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. The same can be said of autotools..

The point is I want to contribute to buildsystems themselves, as projects. Yet it's obvious to me that cmake as a whole is a mistake, so I can't contribute to it in good faith. The abundance of people considering it an upgrade compared to autotools and not another makefile hack suggests that there's little place for me in FOSS community.

It would be a loss to not have the labour of someone so passionate about the topic. It may just be that CMake is chosen for C++ projects you follow in the future. If so, you might still find room for interesting things in the build system world. For example, there is currently a shake vs ninja benchmark battle [1] going on where someone like you could contribute. Sohail [1] http://neilmitchell.blogspot.ca/2014/05/build-system-performance-shake-vs-ni...