[CMake] Re: CMake script vs. Lua

[Brandon Van Every]

On Dec 14, 2007 6:04 PM, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>
> One of the huge advantages of the CMake scripting that I don't believe has
> been emphasized enough in this discussion is it is a small, very easy to
> learn language.  I like it that way, and I believe that quality attracts
> others to CMake as well.

That's mostly true.  But the corner cases of (1) dealing with strings,
lists, quotes, and escapes, and (2) dealing with CMake script wrappers
in ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND, are unnecessarily painful and esoteric.
Currently one learns these things from the school of hard knocks.
Chapter Oriented documentation would go a long ways to addressing
them.  Automagical CMake script wrapping in an ADD_CUSTOM_COMMAND
would help a lot with unifying the language also.

As for other things I appreciate about CMake script: I like that I can
easily use lists.  As long as I adopt a convention for what's a list
and what's a string.  And as long as I don't care about semicolons ;
in my list elements.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every