[CMake] CMake with Lua Experiment

[Sebastien BARRE]

At 11/27/2007 04:02 PM, Juan Sanchez wrote:

>The reason I suggested Tcl was it makes strings easy.  Most everything
>is a string in Tcl.

Everything is a string in Tcl :)

I'm not a Tcl noob, and things are not *that* easy in Tcl: when you 
have to throw an "eval" now and then, you know someone else is going 
to be in trouble understanding that code.

>   There are also no commas, parenthesis, or quotation
>marks.  Everyone hates Tcl, and I accept that.

We don't "hate" Tcl at Kitware, we have been using Tcl for a long 
long time actually. VTK, our first (and probably largest) OpenSource 
product was wrapped pretty early on for that language (before Python 
or Java), and it was a satisfying experience; I remember prototyping 
VTK projects using Tcl almost 10 years ago,  good times. We actually 
still rely heavily on Tcl/Tk for "newer" projects like KWWidgets 
(http://kwwidgets.org), we are compiling/rolling on own Tcl/Tk 
distrib internally every night for more than a few commercial 
products, and most of our testing is done in Tcl. See. Bill Hoffman 
said it last week: we have plenty of experience with Tcl, and it was 
specifically avoided in CMake from the start, probably for that 
reason :) This is way too big of a dependency  for a build system like CMake.