> I am not sure what stops you from using a wrapper script (in Python, portable) and invoking it as a custom target Nothing, when applicable this works and we'

> I am not sure what stops you from using a wrapper script (in Python, portable) and invoking it as a custom target Nothing, when applicable this works and we're doing it already, thank you. But it doesn't as soon as one needs to abstract over CMake commands themselves (like add this target, set that target property, add this test and so on). Of course we could try to generate CMake files in wrapper scripts, but this is another level of CMake juggling entirely. > CMake is quite more frustrating. Could not agree more. But even more frustrating than CMake programming is Meson checking almost all the boxes yet refusing to provide that last one bit of functionality that would make me switch to it (and giving a wrong justification for it).