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		sigoden on Jan 16, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Fishshell rewrite-it-in Rust progress: 100% There are still many cmake files in the current source code. What are they for? It should be known that rust projects usually do not use cmake.

steveklabnik on Jan 16, 2024 | [–]

It says in the post:

> at this stage I think it looks like CMake will be hanging around, much simplified, to handle some of the configure/install targets, while cargo is used for the actual build.

tristan957 on Jan 16, 2024 | [–]

Cargo is an ineffective build system if you need anything that isn't just Rust.

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