[CMake] Effort to create a new generator (tup)

[Bill Hoffman]

On 5/6/2010 12:59 PM, Jed Brown wrote:

> Rebuilding with modified Tupfiles is not a problem, and will only build
> what is necessary.  But:
>
>    Tup doesn't support generating the Tupfiles themselves from other
>    programs. If you do that, you would need to run a separate program to
>    generate them before running 'tup upd'. I would hope that tup is
>    expressive enough that you don't feel the need to generate the
>    Tupfiles, though.
>
>    http://groups.google.com/group/tup-users/msg/2b16ad647bda6c7c
>
>
> Maybe this will change, preferably by coming up with a clean way to
> express the dependency.
>
That would be a serious problem.  As folks would expect to be able to 
edit a CMakeLists.txt file (the input to cmake), run tup, and have the 
right stuff happen.

-Bill