CMakePPLang
The CMakePP organization is committed to making the act of packaging projects with CMake easier through a variety of tools that form a CMake development ecosystem. As complexity is added to the various CMakePP tools, as well as other third-party tools, the need for more capabilities in the CMake language to enable the development of more maintainable and testable code becomes apparent. Object-oriented programming is often thought as synonymous with maintainability in programming, however, CMake is a primarily function-based language. CMake is also weakly, dynamically typed, as all “types” in CMake are strings that are interpreted as different types when needed. A strongly, statically typed language would allow mistakes to be caught before the program is run, reducing the risk of releasing a bugged program.
At the heart of the CMakePP ecosystem is the CMakePP language, CMakePPLang. CMakePPLang is an object-oriented extension to the CMake language providing strong, static typing written entirely using the original CMake language. CMakePPLang has different coding practices, paradigms, and standards than the native CMake language, much in the same way that C++ coding differs from C coding despite some level of interoperability. CMakePPLang is also designed with a C++-like feel to aid C++ programmers in using the language.
This documentation is primarily meant to introduce users to the CMakePP language. It includes some basic usage examples, an overview of the features and conventions of the language, auto-generated API documentation, notes on debugging code written in CMakePPLang, as well as notes for developers.