My goal is also to have the least work done, therefore I think the compromise with using old-makefiles for old distros is a good choice.

By keeping the old-makefiles does not mean to develop them further (eg., when a new compiler version comes out, old-makefiles will not be updated, only cmake stuff (if needed)). We can even move them to a separate folder (e.g., misc/makefiles/) so they are not interfering at all with the future development and have a shell script (or a make in the root folder) to copy over the source tree when needed (e.g., for old-distros). Eventually, for some time, on new modules we need to add a new Makefile, but that is not a big overhead.

Bottom line, I would rather have a simpler cmake system that is oriented to to future, rather than making it complex now to cope with the past, and let the past be handled by existing makefiles.

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