[TUHS] Version 256 of systemd boasts '42% less Unix philosophy' The Register

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Jun 19 16:50:53 AEST 2024


Luther Johnson <luther.johnson at makerlisp.com> wrote:

> and I can't really see what CMake does for me that I
> can't do for myself.

I suspect that it's biggest advantage is that the same (set of)
CMake input files can produce Makefiles, config files for Visual
Studio, and also for Apple's IDE / build system.

I also don't like it; it mixes system configuration with build
dependencies and is ugly and hard to learn. But that's a separate
issue.

Arnold


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