[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014057]: Add GROUP_SOURCES property for targets

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14057 
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Reported By:                szx
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14057
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            N/A
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-04-02 10:56 EDT
Last Modified:              2013-04-02 10:56 EDT
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Summary:                    Add GROUP_SOURCES property for targets
Description: 
It would be nice if there was a property that automatically grouped target's
soruce files on directory basis, similar to what source_group() does.

set_target_properties(foo PROPERTIES GROUP_SOURCES ON)


Additional Information: 
At the moment this can be achieved with e.g. a macro like this:

function(group_target_sources target)
	get_target_property(sources ${target} SOURCES)
	foreach(file ${sources})
		get_filename_component(path "${file}" ABSOLUTE)
		get_filename_component(path "${path}" PATH)
		if(file MATCHES "${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR}")
			file(RELATIVE_PATH path ${PROJECT_BINARY_DIR} "${path}")
		else()
			file(RELATIVE_PATH path ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR} "${path}")
		endif()
		string(REGEX REPLACE "/" "\\\\" win_path "${path}")
		source_group("${win_path}" REGULAR_EXPRESSION "${path}/[^/\\]+\\..*")
	endforeach()
endfunction()

(in fact this is what I use in personal projects)
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-04-02 10:56 szx            New Issue                                    
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