On 29.7.2015. 12:02, Nagy-Egri Máté Ferenc via CMake wrote:
The reason I suggested this as a CMake 4.0 feature is because I am the 11th person out of 10 who actually “likes” CMake a bit and cares for it. I’d rather empower a tool I use on a daily basis than spawn an alternative and spend half my life trying to winning the world over.
My 2 ranting cents: you perfectly summed my own thoughts on CMake. This love-hate relationship seems to be a recurring theme (where you 'adore' the idea behind CMake but 'abhore' the implementation of the idea) so 'there's got to be something to it' ":)"
In addition to it feeling like working with (or fighting against) an ugly crossover between a C preprocessor and a shell script from 1979, an increasingly big source of frustration is its rigidness and limitation of 'only one toolset/compiler per project'. With platforms like Android (NDK) that require you to build for X different architectures with different toolsets/compilers, or IDEs like Xcode or Visual Studio that offer targeting so many different combinations of toolsets and targets (even Android and iOS in the latest version) >from a single project< having a build system that requires you to create a separate build directory for each and every one of those combinations (and then somehow connect them into a master build where a single CPack invocation will be able to gather and package the build results of all the sub-builds) feels like an ancient torture device.
As for the proposal, wouldn't the first logical step in 'decoupling CMake from its legacy' be what Clang did with libclang, i.e extracting the 'core'/non-scripting part of CMake into a libcmake around which new interfaces/DSLs can written/created..?
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