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Re: [bug #50382] Add CMAKE and NUGET support for Windows
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Mark Galassi |
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Re: [bug #50382] Add CMAKE and NUGET support for Windows |
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Wed, 17 Feb 2021 10:31:28 -0700 |
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> I, too, think that the autotools should be replaced with a more user-friendly,
> contemporary alternative. CMake is definitely a good choice.
> Alternatively, Meson (https://mesonbuild.com/) [...]
cmake compounds the problems in automake and in the long run might be even
worse. meson is quite sweet - a small paradigm shift, and my efforts at
porting significant packages have worked out well.
PS: when people diss autotools -- and I am the first one to do so -- they
should remember that it performs remarkably well in one area: longevity. I am
able to build projects from the 1990s with virtually no changes thanks to
autotools's stability. Still, I am starting to migrate things to meson.