Status of libtool 2.2.X?

[Ralf Corsepius]

On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 10:22 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2008-12-01 at 22:28 -0500, Jens Petersen wrote:
> >
> >> I would add:
> >> 
> >> * do not start new projects using autotools as far as possible
> > 
> > I would recommend you to stop spreading FUD.
> 
> What FUD? 
>
> There's an alternative which is:
> * easier to learn,
> * more portable,
> * more backwards-compatible (with its own previous versions),
> * faster,
> * generating nicer makefiles (progress percentages, color output),
> * designed in a better way (information is kept in central places instead of
> being copied into hundreds of projects),
> * used by more and more software, including big projects like KDE 4.
> 
> It's called CMake.
See, all FUD, you simply are spraying hatred against something you don't
understand or don't want to understand.

To me, cmake is
* not easier to learn, just different
* non-portable/inflexible.
* overladden with non-helpful gimmicks like progress percentages and
color output
* a crack ridden design (using a central database), reinvention of
imake, comprising it's design flaws.
* a kde proprietary tool.