[PATCH ipmi-fru-parser] RFC: use cmake.

[Stewart Smith]

Stewart Smith <stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:
> Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz> writes:
>> On Mon, Mar 07, 2016 at 02:30:51PM +1030, Joel Stanley wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 9:00 AM, OpenBMC Patches
>>> <openbmc-patches at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
>>> > From: Patrick Williams <patrick at stwcx.xyz>
>>> >
>>> > There was a previous proposal to consider autotools (see
>>> > openbmc/ipmi-fru-parser#7).  This is an alternative implementation
>>> > using cmake.
>>> 
>>> I'm not a fan of autotools; I have not chosen to use it on small
>>> projects in the past.
>>> 
>>> That said, I have stopped working on projects due to cmake's
>>> downsides. It's overly complex, and no clear way to implement rules,
>>> making it hard for newbies and experienced developers alike.
>>
>> Can you elaborate on this?  I honestly don't have much experience with
>> CMake but from the little I have played with it it seems 5x easier than
>> makefiles (which autotools still use via Makefile.am).
>
> Some getting started bits are easier in CMake, that's true. But CMake
> misses a few important things:

Tridge on CMake:
https://lists.samba.org/archive/samba-technical/2010-February/069670.html

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.