Comment by knorker

Binary downloads? Backward compatibility may allow you to run a 5 year old binary on a system from today, but running a new binary on a 5 year old system is not even a goal.

Choke is easy to upgrade on a modern system, maybe. But that defeats the point, you could just be upgraded normally then.

Or maybe, maybe an old Linux x86. But if that's all you were trying to support then what was the point of cmake in the first place.

It was a few years ago now, so I don't remember the scenario, but no it was absolutely not easy to install/upgrade cmake.

You complain about support for 90s compilers, but it's really helpful when you're trying to install on something obscure. Almost always autotools just works. Cmake, if it's not a Linux or Mac, good luck.