[cmake-developers] Expanding lists from genexes for add_custom_command

[Brad King]

On 06/05/2013 10:11 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> I don't think the idea to have quotedness determine whether 
> add_custom_command expands a list into multiple arguments or consider it one 
> argument is a good one.

Can you present an argument for why it is not a good idea?

There will be some implementation complexity but the semantics
for the users will remain simple: quoted is a single argument,
unquoted divides.  It is an implementation detail whether it
divides at configure or generate time.

-Brad