22 Jul
2017
22 Jul
'17
12:41 p.m.
Tim Blechmann wrote:
fwiw, cmake and b2 have different architecture as one is a build system the other is a generator for build systems.
I wonder how many of the people who repeat this mantra understand either Boost.Build or CMake. CMake does not generate build _systems_, it generates build _scripts_. So does, incidentally, Boost.Build, which is a major reason why it's so hard to understand.