[CMake] CMake and Lua

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Mon Feb 25 14:06:46 EST 2008


On Saturday 23 February 2008, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> this is a reply to your email on the Lua list:
> http://marc.info/?l=lua-l&m=120275861422593&w=2
>
> It is nice to see that there is interest in Lua as
> alternative scripting language. Since I've discovered
> Lua I thought it would be a nice drop-in for the
> actual CMake macro language.

After having seen some presentations at FOSDEM, I'm even more convinced that 
having only limited programming functionality available in build files is a 
good thing. 
While the cmake language may not be beautiful, it works, and the users 
(developers) are not supposed to write programs with it.

Alex


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