[cmake-developers] [Discussion] Add python support for CMakeLists

[Dāvis Mosāns]

2017-01-12 11:48 GMT+02:00 Charles Huet <charles.huet at gmail.com>:
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> Lua is the language that should be used, since it is easy to embed on all
> the platforms CMake supports. All arguments about language X being better
> than language Y do not matter, since all other languages do not answer to
> the constraints that are CMake's, which are, as I understand them:
> - being embeddable so as to not depend on the user to install something else
> - support for lots of various platforms (e.g. ARM)
>

Lua isn't only option, there is also [1] mruby (embedded Ruby)
compiles to C library which can be statically linked. It also is very
customizable, you can compile only those features which you need.


[1] https://github.com/mruby/mruby