[CMake] Why do people need so much control over details of their build?

[Brad King]

Erwin Coumans wrote:
> Like many, I want to distribute projectfiles, without forcing users to
> install cmake to build my library.

This "feature" will never be supported by CMake upstream developers.
It is not a design goal for us.  There are *many* things that CMake
does during the build process that have nothing to do with generating
build files (e.g. dependency scanning).

-Brad