[CMake] CMake Marketing

[Prakash Punnoor]

Am Donnerstag Dezember 15 2005 02:12 schrieb Brandon J. Van Every:
>
> SCons is a near competitor of CMake.  When I was shopping for a better

> Studying the strengths and weaknesses of SCons is going to be important
> though.  It sits in a similar ecological niche and is most likely to eat
> CMake's lunch.
>
> The main downsides I've had with CMake while learning it over the past 2
> months have been:
>
> - incomplete documentation.  This is a big problem.  It's only because

100% agreement. Though I like CMake a lot and got the project files ready as 
secondary build system  for OpenAL and Alut (www.openal.org) - documentation 
for beginners plainly suck. What is called "documentation" is a reference, 
which is nice for people who already know how to properly use CMake. But 
there is nothing nice for beginners. Yes, I know about the tutorial, but it 
is too basic. Take a look at SCons documentation/tutorial. This is something 
I would have liked to have when I started with CMake.

There are tons of undocumented stuff, no place where the modules are listed 
and how they are to be used. So in the end one has to check up each module 
and find out what it does - not very user-friendly.

It is nice the CMake evolves, but it would be better if the documentation 
would do the same...

Cheers,
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