Brandon Van Every wrote:
That's contradictory. You don't bog yourself down with enormous
support burdens for some teeny weeny percentage of people who do
something really weird. Software *is* invalidation of effort. Stuff
gets written, stuff gets changed, stuff gets maintained.
I don't think it is an enormous effort to maintain what we already have.
I think it is an enormous effort to write a translator. I think
translators don't work. It is one thing to convert a word document from
one version to another. It is a totally different thing to translate a
human written computer language from one to another and have it work.
I haven't called you a liar. It is true that I've said you're making
excuses. "It could have a bug! It won't be 100%! Something could go
wrong! Someone could blame us!" That's the order of the day in
You are missing my point. I think we should respect the people that
have picked CMake to build there project, and part of that respect
includes not obsoleting there hard work. We are disagreeing on this
point because of the first point. You believe that a good enough
translator is possible. I do not. Just suppose I am correct and it is
not possible to write a good enough translator. Would you then still
advocate dropping the cmake language? I am not coming up with excuses
here, I really really do believe that the translator idea is nonsense.
How many times do I need to type it for you to understand that is what I
believe?
I'm willing to call a spade a spade. I'm also willing to confront
people when I have a problem with them. If that breaks the
relationship, that does not trouble me. Better than giving lots of
free work to someone who isn't really using it.
You are not willing to accept that I have a different point of view. A
good enough translator is not possible. That is my position. I am not
talking about corner cases here. I am thinking of real world projects
like KDE/ParaView/SecondLife/VTK. The thought of translating these
large projects with a translator is not one I would appreciate being
driven into by the CMake developers.
-Bill
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