[CMake] Using CMake for general scripting tasks?

[Alex Turbov]

Hi Sebastian,

Particularly I've used CMake "scripts" in some "build configurations" at
our CI server as a truly cross-platform scripting language for generic
tasks like download archive, check sha/md5, unpack it, do some file
operations... it works perfectly for Linux and Windows (it is why I chose
CMake %).

BTW, also I use it to talk to some REST API a little, but found lack of
setting arbitrary HTTP method... :( for simple requests it is fine, but
really soon it is not enough existed methods of `file` command... it is why
I'm thinking about to extend it (curl library used by CMake can do all that
I need)... but need to discuss first, cus I think `file` command is not a
suitable candidate for such kind of extension... (casting Brad King into
the thread %)

On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Sebastian Gniazdowski <psprint at zdharma.org
> wrote:

> Hello
> CMake has so many powerful features that I always suspected, that it can
> be used for tasks normally handled by Bash or sh. I've found following
> package manager written in CMake:
>
> https://docs.hunter.sh/en/latest/overview/what-is-it.html
>
> So I think this project confirms CMake's potential for handling general
> scripting tasks. However, it's hard to get some inspiration from Hunter,
> it's just a large collection of CMake packages focused on one specialized
> goal.
>
> But maybe someone used CMake for less specialized scripting tasks and
> would share? I'm writing Zsh plugin manager, Zplugin, and I want to
> integrate with CMake somehow, to get some swiss army knife features.
>
> --
> Sebastian Gniazdowski
> psprint /at/ zdharma.org
>
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