Why was CMake abandoned?

[skylen]

I was wondering why CMake was abandoned as a build system? Simply because no one was using it?

I find the current Makefile system lacking, particularly in that the paths are hard coded and it can't be installed to a user specified directory. I worked around this by installing it by hand (copying the .so files and the include directory manually).

[Laurent]

I was wondering why CMake was abandoned as a build system? Simply because no one was using it?

Yep, I decided to no longer maintain it uselessly.

I find the current Makefile system lacking, particularly in that the paths are hard coded and it can't be installed to a user specified directory

Makefiles can be improved for more flexibility, that's not a problem. I'm just not an expert in writting makefiles, so they may not be perfect

[Aszarsha]

I'm just not an expert in writting makefiles, so they may not be perfect

Wow ! :shock: If everything you do and in which you're an expert is perfect ; I want you're secret, really ! :lol:

[skylen]

I was wondering why CMake was abandoned as a build system? Simply because no one was using it?

Yep, I decided to no longer maintain it uselessly.

I find the current Makefile system lacking, particularly in that the paths are hard coded and it can't be installed to a user specified directory

Makefiles can be improved for more flexibility, that's not a problem. I'm just not an expert in writting makefiles, so they may not be perfect

Ok, thanks Laurent. Right now I'm just exploring the options among graphics libraries for simple free game development (along the lines of game-a-day simple and fun games). If I end up using SFML much, I may expand the flexibility of the makefiles.

[Laurent]

I've improved the makefiles so that we can now choose the destination directory.