[CMake] Gyp VS CMake

[David Cole]

On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Troy Straszheim
<straszheim at willowgarage.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> 2. Tcl (or other) scripting language, which has clearly defined variable
>>> scoping rules and well understood semantics.
>>
>> There are many pros for this idea, but a very important con: People will
>> use it as a general purpose programming language (see what often happens
>> to SCons projects). Even CMake has this problem to a lesser extent (IMHO
>> mainly because it's a PITA to program ;-)). But I think some people at
>> Kitware are/were experimenting with Python bindings...
>>
>
> Really?!?   I'm actually *generating* CMakeLists.txt files with python
> in an effort to work around the entire cmake language and integrate
> better with things that need to know about the build, but aren't the
> build system proper.

No, not really. (At least not to the best of my knowledge...)

There was an experiment a few years ago using Lua, but it was shelved
and has not been revisited.

Nothing in python that I know of.


Cheers,
David


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