[cmake-developers] Saving user settings with xcode generator

[Johan Björk]

Attached patch and comments to bug
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11690

Is there some extra access rights needed to monitor an issue in the
Mantis bugtracker? I can't seem to find any button to do it :(

-Johan

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/26/2010 5:45 PM, Johan Björk wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> (See below for context)
>>
>> To solve the issue, I wish to reuse the object ID for certain
>> properties[1], allowing the foo.pbxuser file to stay valid across CMake
>> invocations. I modified the cmXCodeObject::GetId() function to generate
>> the ID of the object, using either the name property or the comment
>> property, depending on which one is available. For all other object
>> types (not listed in [1]), I generate an unique object ID in the same
>> way as before.
>>
>> The patch is not really finished, just a quick proof of concept (but
>> very trivial :) ). Anyone at @Kitware think this sounds interesting
>> enough to get into a release? Let me know and I'll polish up the patch
>> and file a bug if deemed necessary.
>>
>
> I would think a better approach would be to keep the guid's the same all the
> time.  I think this is done with the VS projects.  If you store them in the
> cache they will be preserved between runs of CMake.
>
>
>> Merry xmas (And again, thanks for a great product!)
>> /Johan
>> [1]
>> PBXProject, PBXNativeTarget, PBXApplicationReference,
>> PBXExecutableFileReference,PBXLibraryReference,PBXToolTarget,PBXLibraryTarget,
>> PBXAggregateTarget,
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 9:17 AM, Johan Björk <phb at spotify.com
>> <mailto:phb at spotify.com>> wrote:
>>
>>    Hi everyone,
>>
>>    I haven't been able to find much information on this topic, so any
>>    suggestions would be greatly appreciated. When CMake regenerates the
>>    XCode project files, it correctly saves the user settings
>>    (foo.pbxuser) (contains things like executable arguments,
>>    environment variables and the such), however, since the GUIDs in the
>>    main project file changes, the pbxuser file be cleaned by XCode as
>>    soon as you reopen the project.
>>
>>    First off, anyone know of any way to be able to keep the user
>>    settings? If not, anyone knows if this has been brought up before
>>    and if someone has attempted to fix it?
>>
>>    This is with XCode 3.2.5 and CMake 2.8.3
>>
>>    Thanks for any insight
>>    /Johan
>>
>>
>>
>>
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