2013/5/9 steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@xxxxxxxxx> > > On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Andrew Starks <andrew.starks@xxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> No love for Lake? >> > > I would not presume to put my pony in this race ;) Mike's makefiles are > very good, as is the Windows batch build. Why mess with a thing that works? > > For the exact same reasons other projects are moving to CMake too: - single script for all platforms - native toolset (make on posix, VC on Win, Xcode on Mac) - customization installation - easier integration with rest of project and its dependencies basically you have the whole team behind CMake that has to worry about platform differences, you only care about which files to compile