On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:16 AM, Michael Wild <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 2. Tcl (or other) scripting language, which has clearly defined variable >> scoping rules and well understood semantics. > > There are many pros for this idea, but a very important con: People will > use it as a general purpose programming language (see what often happens > to SCons projects). Even CMake has this problem to a lesser extent (IMHO > mainly because it's a PITA to program ;-)). But I think some people at > Kitware are/were experimenting with Python bindings... >
Really?!? I'm actually *generating* CMakeLists.txt files with python in an effort to work around the entire cmake language and integrate better with things that need to know about the build, but aren't the build system proper. _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
