[CMake] Extensions to cmake..

[Shishir Ramam]

Hi,
I am converting a project from make to cmake, and feeling some pain. 
Basically, the Makefiles make extensive use of grep/sed and other such 
utils to generate input files. 

While cmake provides some support for file processing - it's limited to 
finding/copying/deleting. 

I was wondering how difficult it'd be to add extensions to allow 
generic scripting capabilities - binding to say tcl/perl/python or somesuch?

Thinking about this, it also made me wonder as to why a special language
was invented for Cmake in the first place? It could probably have been built 

as an extension to a scripting language. Would be interesting to know that 
bit
of history...

Tcl seems to have some effort expended in this direction - 
http://wiki.tcl.tk/12592 , though nothing close to what cmake provides
in terms of cross platform capabilities.

-shishir

-- 
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, 
it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. 
- Seneca
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