[CMake] Gyp VS CMake

[Michael Wild]

On 02/18/2011 09:34 PM, Peter Kümmel wrote:
> 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

Ah, yes. It was Lua. Sorry for the mistake.

Michael