libpypa integration

I prefer auto tools for linux/unix environments since it is the best supported build system across the systems. Not saying that CMake is not any good, however when distributing tarballs it's quite straight forward to get your things installed. And when the distribution maintainers are doing their job right, the common constants for where to install something to are set, and also the system preferred compiler flags are provided. That's when you install something as a library.

I know that could be done with CMake the same, however i feel it to be a hustle building and installing with cmake, whereas once you get used to write libraries/applications with the autotools build system it's actually not that bad.

I see CMake good for creating multi platform/os development where you have different build systems (Makefile, Visual Studio projects, XCode projects etc)
But then again, Makefiles are working on all of those systems as well, and when I have a project which is targeted mainly on unices I don't even see a point in doing it different.

Another point for me, of using autotools is the support in the linux distributions for packaging. When something can be built and installed with ./configure %flags% && make && make install most packaging systems will make you only write a few lines. However once you start having another build system and you dont have by default support for this build system it starts being a nightmare.

Anyway, CMake gets a lot of traction lately, and I have to admit that I have never been spending too much time with it, since I am for work reasons more bound to auto tools. Since you have already someone whose investing time into CMake just go this way :+1: