> If you think your project will have more than half a dozen developers then you should probably start thinking about something like...
CMake was created in 2000 with large, cross-platform projects involving multiple organizations in mind. The development was funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for the ITK project (https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK). As of 2025, ITK consists of millions of lines of code and has received contributions from hundreds of developers. Other projects of similar scale include VTK and ParaView.
CMake was created in 2000 with large, cross-platform projects involving multiple organizations in mind. The development was funded by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) for the ITK project (https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK). As of 2025, ITK consists of millions of lines of code and has received contributions from hundreds of developers. Other projects of similar scale include VTK and ParaView.