[CMake] diff to bakefiles

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 21 September 2007 04:31, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
> On 9/20/07, Christian Buhtz <exsudat at gmx.de> wrote:
> > What is the difference between cmake and bakefiles?
>
> http://bakefile.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?n=Bakefile.Comparisons
>
> CMake is the most similar to Bakefile from these. It generates
> semi-native makefiles -- while the makefile is for the native make
> tool, it still requires presence of CMake during compilation. Bakefile
> has no such requirement. CMake also does (auto-)configuration (like
> Autoconf), which Bakefile doesn't.
>
>
> I guess you could also try on the KDE ML since they have investigated
> multiple solutions before choosing cmake (I do not recall they ever
> mention bakefiles)...

No, bakefile wasn't among the candidates: considered imature, nobody actually 
suggested it.
We (KDE) tried scons for some months, but had problems and didn't get support 
nor were patches accepted by the scons developers.

Alex