[codedokode]

I used CMake and I liked that it can produce NMake files, which can be used for building with Windows SDK (not bloated Visual Studio, SDK contains just headers and compiler) on Windows XP.

And generally it is much easier to use than manually write Makefiles or use Autotools with weird unintuitive syntax. As I remember, they use `dnl` keyword (download?) for comments!

[ur-whale]

You like CMake in much the same way people like Visual Basic: it has lots and lots of features and therefore people find it useful.

But, just like VB isn't a good solution for an embedded language, it doesn't mean cmake is a good solution to the general problem of building large codebases.

[codedokode]

No, I like CMake because it is better than writing Makefiles manually or using autotools.