Re: Premake vs. CMake

["Brandon Van Every" <bvanevery@...>]

On Feb 2, 2008 7:49 PM, Wesley Smith <wesley.hoke@gmail.com> wrote:
> > CMake is a build system *generator*.  I think Premake is also.  The
> > generator generates the native build system, then you use that.  You
> > don't use Premake to run a VS project file, you use the VS project
> > file that Premake generated for you.
> >
>
> My question is ... why can''t they do both?

I think the answer is, "because it's too hard to implement and
maintain in the real world."  But I'm not 100% certain of that, so
I'll ask on the CMake list.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every