What exactly are you looking for with regards to deployment, and what tool do use, instead of CMake, to give you that ability?
The point I'm trying to make is that every build system except Make solves a really specific class of build problem(building applications, or building Linux systems using GCC) and then pretentiously claims to support everything that matters. What you're actually getting is a small sliver of what you might need in my world.
This article is another example of how Make can do something really unexpected by providing really simple features and letting you decide what matters to you. I've yet to see another build system that is as generally useful.
https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/Platfor... https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/blob/master/Modules/Compile...