[CMake] improve the CMake language?

[Brandon Van Every]

On Nov 2, 2007 11:49 AM, Juan E. Sanchez <Juan.Sanchez at amd.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Brandon Van Every wrote:
> >
> > To make real improvements in all of those areas, you'd need a lot of
> > funding.  What kind of mandate do you have?  There's not much point in
> > saying "everything's gonna be better" if you don't have the labor.
>
> This would be a community effort.  I don't have the resources to
> strike out on my own.

Without a bunch of gold bars at your disposal, I'd say the CMake
community isn't going anywhere.  Best to work on compromises within
the community rather than sweeping changes.

> I like using cmake.  The language is kind of a
> bitter pill for people in my organization to swallow.
>
> The most important item on my proposed feature list is the Tcl
> frontend.

I know everyone champions their favorite scripting language, but my
opinion is, if you go that route you're doomed.  Pick something that
programmers consider modern and sexy, or you're never going to get the
mindshare.  A key consideration that dominates my own thinking as of
late: "Who's gonna pay me to know language X ?"  I went back to C++
for this reason.  I'm sorry but whatever its merits, Tcl is not a
resume skill nowadays.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every