[CMake] Complaint about if..endif

[Robert Dailey]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:20 AM, cyril_wobow <cyril at wobow.com> wrote:
>
> Like a ... python front end ?
>
> Seriously, cmake is really, really, really verbose and terribly unreadable
> as a scripting language...
>

I would agree with you in that CMake isn't perfect and it does have a lot of
issues that I've seen in the few hours I've spent learning it. It has some
issues with portability and it also is pretty unreadable/verbose in some
cases. However, considering alternatives I would say it could be worse.
Boost.Build (BJam) is absolutely one of the most unreadable languages I've
seen. I refuse to use it just because of that fact. I also have yet to find
another build system that generates visual studio project files like CMake
does. It would be nice to see alternatives for comparison though.
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