On Dec 14, 2007 6:04 PM, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the huge advantages of the CMake scripting that I don't believe has > been emphasized enough in this discussion is it is a small, very easy to > learn language. I like it that way, and I believe that quality attracts > others to CMake as well.
That's mostly true. But the corner cases of (1) dealing with strings, lists, quotes, and escapes, and (2) dealing with CMake script wrappers in ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND, are unnecessarily painful and esoteric. Currently one learns these things from the school of hard knocks. Chapter Oriented documentation would go a long ways to addressing them. Automagical CMake script wrapping in an ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND would help a lot with unifying the language also. As for other things I appreciate about CMake script: I like that I can easily use lists. As long as I adopt a convention for what's a list and what's a string. And as long as I don't care about semicolons ; in my list elements. Cheers, Brandon Van Every _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
