On Friday 13 June 2008 16:51:19 Enrico Weigelt wrote: ... > That's why I prefer an purely descriptive paragidm (= subset of > delcarative, but practically no logic): a buildfile should only > describe the package's structure (eg.: "i have some executable foo > which consists of source [...] and imports libs [...]), so the > buildtool (and user's config) can cope with it all.
This was also the plan for cmake when it was started. But it turned out that this is not enough, and for more complex projects some programming logic is required. So cmake turned from quite declarative to quite imperative over time. So while declarative sounds nice, in practice it just isn't powerful enough. Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
