[rescue] tired of current GUIs / a rant about the daily garbage we put up with

[Bill Dorsey]

Hi Richard,

We switched from CMake to Google's Bazel about three years ago. Of 
course YMMV, but no one at my firm has expressed a desire to go back.

- Bill

On 10/23/19 5:22 PM, Richard wrote:
> In article <4a49dc04054d06c4fc72ce1a16631acd1129fce8.camel at agj.net>,
>      Stefan Skoglund <stefan.skoglund at agj.net> writes:
>
>> That configure and autotool is a hard doing properly , that i can agree
>> with but the current replacement in the linux world seems to be some
>> version of a python tool [...]
> The world has moved to CMake, some time ago.  I used to work with John
> Calcote, who wrote the only book that exists on autoconf.  There is a
> paragraph in the introduction section of the book on CMake that says
> why CMake is superior to autoconf/autotools.  I asked John's opinion
> of what they wrote in the CMake book and he agreed.  So yeah,
> autoconf/autotools is an abomination and doesn't work at all on a
> system that isn't unix-like, e.g. Windows, VMS, etc.  CMake is
> superior and uses a completely different approach from autotools which
> avoids all the silliness described in that article (which was a nice
> read, thanks whoever shared that link :).