<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Not responding to this email, apologies to Luther and Arnold.</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I’ve posted on COFF a related note on Unix Philosophy, </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Would appreciate comments & corrections.</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><<a href="https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/coff@tuhs.org/thread/KHQYFL6KMD3HZ73I2R6C653XWO23F72S/">https://www.tuhs.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/coff@tuhs.org/thread/KHQYFL6KMD3HZ73I2R6C653XWO23F72S/</a>></div><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On 19 Jun 2024, at 16:50, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>Luther Johnson <luther.johnson@makerlisp.com> wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">and I can't really see what CMake does for me that I<br>can't do for myself.<br></blockquote><br>I suspect that it's biggest advantage is that the same (set of)<br>CMake input files can produce Makefiles, config files for Visual<br>Studio, and also for Apple's IDE / build system.<br><br>I also don't like it; it mixes system configuration with build<br>dependencies and is ugly and hard to learn. But that's a separate<br>issue.<br><br>Arnold<br></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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