[CMake] improve the CMake language?
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Nov 1 22:06:04 EDT 2007
Sanchez, Juan wrote:
> Tcl is a nice language for implementing declarative commands. It can be
> easily built on about every platform out there, and the language rules
> are well known. It is small, and very easy to compile a standalone Tcl
> based interpreter with the CMake commands built in. The user would not
> need to have any language installed, you could package the source with
> CMake or make it part of the cmake binary you distribute. It is freely
> distributable and has a BSD license.
>
We are not doing CMake in Tcl!
We specifically avoided it at the start. From what I can tell it is
declining, and the compile a standalone thing was never that easy, and
we (Kitware) have plenty of experience with tcl. Please don't bother to
refute this ... ( I am ranting a bit). CMake would require Tcl to
build, right now it only needs C++, and I aim to keep it that way.
I will say this. Unless someone is going to fork CMake, I do not think
there will be a new language. I guess I should just stay on the side
lines until the current "change the language thread" is over... SIGH...
-Bill
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