[CMake] Adding a new language

[Bill Hoffman]

On 11/14/2011 3:24 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:

>
> If you are willing to make such an OCaml summary, I would be willing
> to do the same thing for Ada to make our joint case to the CMake
> developers of what kind of additional generic language support is
> needed by CMake to deal with the complicated build needs of languages
> such as OCaml and Ada (and Fortran 95) in a completely generic way.
>

There is no case to make, I would love to improve the general language 
support.  However, either you find someone to develop this for you, or 
you find someone willing to pay someone to develop it.  That is really 
how open source works.  Creating a generic way to add new languages that 
will work on all platforms is a pretty huge task, and will require some 
serious funding, or someone with lots of free time and skill.

The custom commands are the best way to do this in CMake today, and 
likely in the near future.  Basically, they can be used to do just about 
anything ( I have seen latex, and all sorts of other things done with 
custom commands.)

-Bill