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Post #2027348
2026-04-14 06:25 UTC
@uecker @diegovsky They both have ugly syntax, they both have decades of jank, they both are full of warts, but one is a pile of shell scripts that falls over if you have the audacity to use a space in a path and the other cares about platforms customers actually use.
I'm not saying I love CMake. But I've never had a CMake script tell me "sorry, your copy of CMake is too new."
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@uecker@mastodon.social 2026-04-14 06:30
@malwareminigun @diegovsky Just anecdotal, but CMake wasted a lot more of my time trying to fix random build errors that provide no useful information about what is actually wrong. Whether is actually needed to support Windows, I am not sure, but yes, this is the excuse.
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@mirabilos@toot.mirbsd.org 2026-04-21 15:03
@uecker @malwareminigun @diegovsky uh, happened to me twice in the last year, in the same package at that and cmake cannot even install manpages 😹