[CMake] Lua in a nutshell

[Brandon Van Every]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Sebastien BARRE
<sebastien.barre at kitware.com> wrote:
> At 3/4/2008 12:28 PM, Brandon Van Every wrote:
>  > >  >
>  > >  > - CMake script must be maintained indefinitely for a small percentage
>  > >  > of users no matter what the migration strategy
>  >
>  >BTW, this point is intended to mean that CMake script must always be
>  >supported, even under the most wildly optimistic migration strategy.
>  >One can debate how many CMake script users will have to be supported
>
>  FIY, no, not really, one does not have to debate about it IMHO. At
>  this very moment, I can tell you this number is right about 100% of
>  the users who have been writing CMake script at one time or another
>  (sometimes, a *lot* of CMake script) and rely on it. You can not, for
>  the sake of a rhetorical argument, discard them, call them "small" or
>  insinuate they are worth being supported or not. I'd say they are,
>  and this is an important point.

I said one can debate it.  Your position seems to be that one cannot
debate it, and shouldn't be allowed to debate it.  I agreed not to
debate certain technical aspects of the issue for 3 months.  I think
everyone is capable of forming their own opinion of how precious CMake
script is to any given company, and how many companies would be only
too glad to move on if a viable alternative was available to them.
Especially if the migration strategy allowed them to do it
incrementally, in a language they actually like.

Be advised: if there's a real market need and you're not willing to
fulfill it, someone always comes along who will.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every