[CMake] improve the CMake language?

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 2, 2007 6:04 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >  Many features in the CMake language don't really work the way people
> > expect, or are not documented, or both.
>
> Documentation is not as good as it should be
> but re-implementing something (either TCL, Python, Perl)
> won't make the documentation better.

Actually for language syntax issues, which CMake certainly has, the
documentation would become tremendously better.  And Kitware wouldn't
have to maintain that documentation at all.  There would be a
bazillion Python or Ruby examples to choose from out on the net.  In
another thread I've asked about adding PCRE.  One of the main benefits
I see in PCRE is it's well-documented, whereas the CMake regex engine
is not.

I agree that "how to use this CMake function to do XYZ" won't improve
by re-implementing CMake in another language.  It's an orthogonal
problem.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every