[CMake] Complaint about if..endif

[cyril_wobow]

Robert Dailey a écrit :
> On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 4:20 AM, cyril_wobow <cyril at wobow.com 
> <mailto:cyril at wobow.com>> wrote:
>
>     Like a ... python front end ?
>
>     Seriously, cmake is really, really, really verbose and terribly
>     unreadable as a scripting language...
>
>
> I would agree with you in that CMake isn't perfect and it does have a 
> lot of issues that I've seen in the few hours I've spent learning it. 
> It has some issues with portability and it also is pretty 
> unreadable/verbose in some cases. However, considering alternatives I 
> would say it could be worse. Boost.Build (BJam) is absolutely one of 
> the most unreadable languages I've seen. I refuse to use it just 
> because of that fact. I also have yet to find another build system 
> that generates visual studio project files like CMake does. It would 
> be nice to see alternatives for comparison though.
Sure, I guess we are all here because CMake is a very powerful suite, 
with tons of functionalities and useful abstractions. But I challenge 
anyone to seriously tell me that he/she enjoys writing CMake script. As 
soon as you don't have to only set a bunch of variables and call a few 
built-in macros any more, you get crazy. Do a bit of string processing, 
you get crazy. Write/call your own functions and macros, with argument 
passing and returning, you get crazy.
To me, that is definitely THE weakest point of CMake, along with its 
fairly arnarchic documentation.
I would be very interested by others' testimonies.
Kudos anyway to the CMake team!