[CMake] OO and/or IDEs

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Quoting Brandon Van Every <bvanevery at gmail.com>:

> beefing
> up CMake with PCRE and a few more string processing routines is an
> obvious and easy improvement to the product.

I'm working on that, by the way.

PCREs have been actually easy to implement, including your wishes  
about outputting the matches directly to variables instead of using  
REGEX_REPLACE (PCRE_REPLACE in our case), etc.

I also took a look at the IF command implementation and I'm going to  
implement PCREs there, too: IF(variable PCRE_MATCHES pcre_regex) /  
IF(string PCRE_MATCHES pcre_regex).

The most difficult part is understanding the really odd (at least to  
me) behavior of REGEX_MATCH and REGEX_REPLACE in current CMake (I'd  
like PCRE to mimic as much as possible).

There is one thing which discourages me, though: nobody from Kitware  
commented on the interest of PCREs, what the "deadline" for PCREs to  
be included in CMake 2.6.0 would be, nothing.

-- 
Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)