[cmake-developers] CMake alternative language

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

The problem is doing :

    list(LENGTH MyList NumList)
    math(EXPR MaxItList ${NumList}-1)

    foreach(i RANGE ${MaxItList})
        list(GET MyOtherListOfSameSizeThanMyList ${i} Element)
        foobazify(${Element})
    endforeach()

instead of :

    for i in range(0, MyList.size):
        foobazifiy(MyOtherListOfSameSizeThanMyList[i])




On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Charles Huet <charles.huet at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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