[cmake-developers] CMake alternative language

[J Decker]

On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 3:09 PM, Jean-Michaël Celerier
<jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem is doing :
>
>     list(LENGTH MyList NumList)
>     math(EXPR MaxItList ${NumList}-1)
>
>     foreach(i RANGE ${MaxItList})
>         list(GET MyOtherListOfSameSizeThanMyList ${i} Element)
>         foobazify(${Element})
>     endforeach()
>
Probably a bad exmple, since you're not using MyList or i that simplifies to....

foreach( Element ${MyOtherListOfSameSizeThanMylist} )
    foobazify( ${Element} )
endforeach()

> instead of :
>
>     for i in range(0, MyList.size):
>         foobazifiy(MyOtherListOfSameSizeThanMyList[i])
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 2:08 PM, Charles Huet <charles.huet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> As long as CMake embeds everything that is required, I don't see the
>> additional pain (since this is what it already does with the CMake
>> language).
>>
>>
>> Le jeu. 14 janv. 2016 à 13:35, Jean-Michaël Celerier
>> <jeanmichael.celerier at gmail.com> a écrit :
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 10:21 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> My personal opinion: if the full power of python would be available, the
>>>> build
>>>> scripts would quickly turn into real programs, because programmers would
>>>> be
>>>> tempted to do so if all of python would be available. Then developers
>>>> would
>>>> have to understand two programs: the program itself, and the "build
>>>> program".
>>>
>>>
>>> The problem is when you have to do a real program for your build system
>>> anyways (which occurs one day or another for any large enough project I
>>> guess).
>>> Currently it's a real pain (but it'd be even more painful to have to ship
>>> Python / Bash / $script_language as part of your build system).
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