Re: [gpsd-dev] cmake: (was: Re: [PATCH]: Link Python extensions with libpython - attempt 3)

[Eric S. Raymond]

Bernd Zeimetz <address@hidden>:
> My problem with scons is that I wasted hours of my life in trying to figure
> out things in scons that would just work out of the box in a correct way.
> Or that would have been easy to debug in other build systems by reading
> a stupid Makefile...

Pretty much anything other than bare makefiles would have presented
you with the same "out of the box" problem, though.  Can you honestly
say the complexity barrier to entry of cmake is any lower than scons 
presents to a new user?  I doubt it...

Separately, I wish I had only wasted hours of my life on autotools
since 1991.  It has to have run into *weeks* of my life by now.  That
felt like months.

I'm sorry you had a bad initial experience with scons. Can you identify 
specific design decisions or missing features that give you problems?
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>