Chapter 12: Creating Your Professional Project
We gathered all the required knowledge to build professional projects; we learned about structuring, building, dependency management, testing, analyzing, installing, and packaging. It's time to put these acquired skills into practice by creating a coherent, professional project.
The important thing to understand is that even trivial programs will benefit from automated quality checks and a streamlined end-to-end process that turns raw code into a fully fledged solution. It's true that this is often a considerable investment, as many steps need to be taken in order to prepare everything right – even more so if we're trying to add these mechanisms to already existing code bases (usually, they're already large and convoluted).
That's the very reason to use CMake from the get-go and set all the piping upfront; not only it will be easier to configure but, more importantly, it's also much more efficient...
