Re: CMake on Unix

On 5/12/26 12:08 PM, Timofei Zhakov wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> There are cmake configuration files in APR's upstream that were
> primarily made to address complexity of building the project on Windows
> platform and yet it's the only one supported.
> 
> I think it would be really cool ...


No.

No it is not and would not be "cool" by any possible definition.

On the long list of truely bad ideas "cmake" is at the top. Kitware
exists to make money. Nothing else. The "cmake" tool exists to create
lock in and horrific levels of unwanted complexity.

Just stop. Do not ever go towards cmake. Ever.

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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken