[CMake] Gyp VS CMake

[Peter Kümmel]

On 18.02.2011 20:48, David Cole wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>

Experiment with Lua is here:
   http://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/CMakeLua

and an experiment with Qt's JavaScript with the advantage of having a debugger with a GUI:
    http://sourceforge.net/projects/cmakescript/

Peter