[CMake] CMake and Lua
Brandon Van Every
bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 17:01:54 EST 2008
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Also, backwards compatibility is something we take very seriously. If
> someone picks CMake as a build tool, we have to respect that choice and
> try our best not to break that project. There are very large projects
> that have many lines of CMake code in them. People have put a great
> deal of effort into creating those files. If they don't have the time
> to re-write in a new language, I don't blame them.
This is why I think an automated translation tool, say from CMake
script --> Lua, is essential to a migration strategy.
> I also won't try to
> force them to do it, by obsoleting the current language.
I think if the automated translation tool had proven itself for a
couple of years, it would be perfectly reasonable to force people to
move on. So there is still that 2 year window of supporting 2
languages.
> So, we might have two official languages someday, but no more than that.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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