[CMake] Announcing a (potential) new CMake project!

[Jeremy Moles]

Hello everyone! My name is Jeremy, and I've been working with AlphaPixel 
(http://www.alphapixel.com) for the last 3 years. Similar to other 
companies of the type, Chris (our CEO), gives the employees the 
opportunity to frequently work on projects that don't always directly 
relate to the contract work at hand. Lately we've been tossing around 
the idea of working on a project related to CMake, and before I set out 
to begin hacking, I wanted to ping the lists and make sure I'm not 
duplicating existing work or putting effort into something that won't 
ever see any use.

Our idea is to create a website (and corresponding frontends) that acts 
as a kind of universal, well-known CMake module repository. This would 
be a central place where all (or as many as people are willing to 
commit!) CMake files are hosted, version-controlled, reviewed, and 
easily accessible with a number of different API's and frontends. Of 
course, CMake itself includes a large number of modules with each 
release, but our service--which we are calling CMakeSys 
internally--would serve as a kind of "stomping grounds" before the 
modules are formally integrated with CMake proper.

My idea is to build the core of CMakeSys as a web service that responds 
to specially formatted (and sometimes necessarily long) GET requests. 
Further, in addition to specifying the language of choice for your 
project, the modules you need, etc., the service will also be able to 
package up a skeleton directory layout for your project as a zip archive!

I envision this service acting not only as a central repository for 
CMake modules, but also as a place where, going foward--and in parallel 
with CMake's recent widespread adoption--many different CMake usage 
paradigms are established and developed.

At this point, we're soliciting any input the community might have on 
our idea. I am aware of the project biicode (http://web.biicode.com) 
which is somewhat similar to what we're trying to create, although 
CMakeSys could potentially be a (or THE) repository this project uses as 
well.