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Could you explain how cmake stuff isn't portable or broken between different flavors of Unix? I comfortably maintain CMake builds that work on linux (with centos, ubuntu and arch), macos and windows without much trouble.

If you mean cmake versions, I'm not sure what you expect, should cmake just freeze in time and stop adding features so someone gets to use cmake from 5 years ago?

Also, the bit about autotools on windows is silly. If it can't build native windows stuff, it's not at all viable for windows.

I also dislike cmake (particularly dependency management) and wish for something better, but I think our criticisms should be well-founded.