On 08/03/2012 04:33 PM, Eric Wing wrote: > Yes, there was a big long thread on the CMake lists back in 2008-ish
The main two threads started here: http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-November/017347.html http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2007-November/017971.html Ken's experiment only scratched the surface. There are many very hard problems with trying to replace the CMake language with Lua directly in CMake itself. For historical reasons a large part of the build system generators are tied to the CMake language implementation. The language has some unique semantic properties which cannot be reproduced cleanly in Lua, and we probably wouldn't want them in a new language anyway. Direct replacement is not feasible. Perhaps some major internal redesign and refactoring could possibly split the generation part off into a private SDK shared by the existing language and some new language, but it would be a huge effort. As for your first option, a "zero-impact wrapper", what do you envision would be the benefits? -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
