[CMake] Using CMake for general scripting tasks?

[Konstantin Tokarev]

14.11.2017, 03:46, "Sebastian Gniazdowski" <psprint at zdharma.org>:
> 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:
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> https://docs.hunter.sh/en/latest/overview/what-is-it.html
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> 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.
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> 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.

For general scripting tasks use general-purpose scripting language, e.g. Perl, Python, Ruby. You will avoid many issues of sub-par languages, make your programs less verbose, and will be able to use huge collections of 3rd party modules which can do almost anything you can think about

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Konstantin