[CMake] CMake and Lua

Brandon Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Feb 27 20:18:22 EST 2008


On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
>
> Brandon Van Every wrote:
>  >
>  > I think if the automated translation tool had proven itself for a
>  > couple of years, it would be perfectly reasonable to force people to
>  > move on.  So there is still that 2 year window of supporting 2
>  > languages.
>
>  I have yet to see a auto-translate tool that works 100%.  I do not
>  believe that they exist.  I guess there is f2c, but I am sure there are
>  corner cases that fails on.

That's 2 cantankerous languages and a rather general problem domain.
CMake script is a rather limited language.  Not that hard to map it to
Lua.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every


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