[CMake] CMake Marketing

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Karr, David A. wrote:

>I'm a little puzzled to read that Delta3D switched from CMake to SCons
>because they were doing more in Linux.  I pushed to have CMake adopted
>by my primary project (a NASA prototype for future concepts in air
>traffic control) two years ago partly because I was able to confirm that
>it would support dual maintenance of our C++ code in Windows and Linux.
>We've been using CMake for 2+ years on this project now, and while we
>haven't done a lot in Linux after all I have occasionally run a build
>there and found CMake to work smoothly enough.
>  
>
I agree that there's no inherent strategic reason for it, just because 
of Linux.  But it seems that in practice, they found CMake a PITA and 
SCons friendly.  Probing them harder about why they switched might be 
worthwhile, but Bill did already get from them the following reasons:

1. they are python developers, so scons was easier for them.
2. they had trouble customizing CMakeList files, not python 
3. they liked running scons instead of cmake .; make

It might be as simple as, CMake will always lose to SCons if Python is being used on the project.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
RTFM ISA PITA