On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:20 AM, cyril_wobow <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyril@wobow.com">cyril@wobow.com</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Like a ... python front end ?<br>
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Seriously, cmake is really, really, really verbose and terribly unreadable as a scripting language...<br>
</blockquote></div><br>I would agree with you in that CMake isn't perfect and it does have a lot of issues that I've seen in the few hours I've spent learning it. It has some issues with portability and it also is pretty unreadable/verbose in some cases. However, considering alternatives I would say it could be worse. Boost.Build (BJam) is absolutely one of the most unreadable languages I've seen. I refuse to use it just because of that fact. I also have yet to find another build system that generates visual studio project files like CMake does. It would be nice to see alternatives for comparison though.<br>