[cmake-developers] Generating information for C++ tools in cmake (patch)

[Manuel Klimek]

On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 11:08 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/18/2011 1:50 PM, Manuel Klimek wrote:
>> > Since this is a big integration style test, is it also possible to
>> > integrate a python test? (the whole test would fit into a few lines of
>> > python then)
>>
>> We'd prefer not to depend on python, but certainly a prototype in
>> python would be a good start.
>>
>> -Brad
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>
> Brad's being polite when he says we'd prefer not to depend on python.
>
> CMake itself *will not* depend on python. And for any test that is expected
> to be run on all of our dashboard clients before it's accepted into CMake
> 'master', such a test cannot depend on python either.

So the question is: do you want to run this test as part of the
dashboard clients?
I'm happy to comply with whatever decision you make, given the
trade-off between maintainability of the test and dependency on
python.

Cheers,
/Manuel