current status: writing a build system in cmake
not "something that builds a project and is also implemented in implemented in cmake"
no, it is "something that is implemented in cmake and can be used to implement a build system that is in turn used as a part of a build system (also in cmake)"
i'm making it sound more complicated than it is, the actual thing boils down to "cmake's dependency resolution algorithm doesn't work for a particular edge case i'm having, so i'm implementing a different one, in cmake script"
but also "dependency resolution algorithm" is basically what a build system is, so,
i don't know if the fact that doing this is somewhat normal in a certain type of cmake project makes it better or worse
(compiler component dependencies are sometimes handled this way. LLVM has a much more elaborate system that boils down to the same thing. they also let you interact with it out of tree, which mercifully i don't have to care about)
The world of buildsystems is weird and fascinating.
My opinion on cmake is that (for certain domains) it's the best there is, and that's sad.
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