[cmake-developers] Using CMake as a package manager vs using a dedicated package management tool (like Conan)

2019-02-18 Thread Timothy Wrona
I have been working on a new C++ project and I am trying to decide whether I should use CMake as my package management system or if I should use a dedicated package management tool such as Conan. For more information on Conan see: https://conan.io/ I am trying to understand the main difference be

[cmake-developers] Dead CMake Redesign Projects

2019-02-18 Thread Taylor Holberton
Hello! Since about July of 2018, I've been trying to design an interpreter library for the CMake language, common for the cmake, cpack, and ctest tools. It was my idea that I could create an extensible library for the CMake project, that could make it easier to add commands, generators, and integr