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Initially we have built and managed all our projects within eclipse using CDT projects. We develop software for different plattforms, so cross-compiling was always very important to us.
Later we switch over to CMake (v2.8). But as the beginning is always tough, we also had draw backs (that was more comfortable before). Especially understanding when globbing files is executed and we also didn't like to switch between command line and eclipse just to checkout and setup the project to import it later.
Still, we liked the built-in eclipse cdt project cmake generators much.
Other plugins to integrate CMake in eclipse were already available:
CMakeBuilder and cmake4eclipse assist integrating CMake in CDT. But we didn't manage to setup cross compiling, so we decided to simply write a wrapper for the already in cmake integrated "CDT Project generator" and thought it would be simple. And with the time passing and multiple feature requests and improvements we decided to provide it as a public eclipse plugin for everyone.