[cmake-developers] CMake alternative language

[Charles Huet]

As long as CMake embeds everything that is required, I don't see the
additional pain (since this is what it already does with the CMake
language).


Le jeu. 14 janv. 2016 à 13:35, Jean-Michaël Celerier <
jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> a écrit :

>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> My personal opinion: if the full power of python would be available, the
>> build
>> scripts would quickly turn into real programs, because programmers would
>> be
>> tempted to do so if all of python would be available. Then developers
>> would
>> have to understand two programs: the program itself, and the "build
>> program".
>
>
> The problem is when you have to do a real program for your build system
> anyways (which occurs one day or another for any large enough project I
> guess).
> Currently it's a real pain (but it'd be even more painful to have to ship
> Python / Bash / $script_language as part of your build system).
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