[CMake] CMake with Lua Experiment

[Mike Jackson]

Let me second that. It seems that those usually unhappy with  
something speak up and those that are happy stay quiet. This has the  
unfortunate effect of making something look broke when it really is  
not. Let me be loud also.

I DO NOT NEED ANOTHER LANGUAGE TO LEARN ALL THE NUANCES OF. I LIKE  
CMAKE IN ITS CURRENT FORM.

I hope that was loud enough for everyone to hear.

Better documentation is needed more than another language. Look at  
QtAssistant and its indexed docs. Produce something like that for cmake.

Just my $5 worth.. ( I am pitching in more than 2 cents.. :-) )
-- 
Mike Jackson   Senior Research Engineer
Innovative Management & Technology Services


On Nov 26, 2007, at 6:03 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote:

> Quoting Ken Martin <ken.martin at kitware.com>:
>
>> Just heading down this path as an experiment to get a better feel  
>> for it.
>> Posted a snapshot of the source code on the Wiki
>> http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake:Experiments_With_Lua The biggest  
>> issues I
>> see are 1) keeping two languages around sounds like more work and  
>> who needs
>> more work  2) variables in lua are not variables in CMake and vice  
>> versa.
>> The cm_configure_file command only configures cmake variables,  
>> this could be
>> a good thing in one sense :)
>
> I do not mean to be rude, but please scrap it. Or make Lua the only  
> language allowed in CMake. But having two languages is going to be  
> bad because in the end, we will need to know and at least be able  
> to understand two languages as there will be CMakeLists.txt,  
> FindXXXX.cmake, etc files in both languages.
>
> Before Lua is added as a language to CMake, I'd like to ask a  
> question: is there really a need for Lua (or any other language) or  
> is the current CMake scripting Turing-complete and able to do  
> anything which could be done with Lua?
>
> Please note I'm not against Lua but only against having to know two  
> languages.
>
> Thank you.
>
> -- 
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
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