On Feb 3, 2007, at 8:59 AM, Alexandre Prokoudine wrote:

I know nothing about Bob's buildtool. CMake seems to eventually become

mainstream for desktop applications these days (KDE4, Scribus etc.)

Yes...

But before that SCONS was the new system for KDE, etc.

One huge problem there was that I could not get certain SCONS projects to work on OSX. I believe that CMake is much better in that regards, but very good cross-platform support is definitely something to test well.