[cmake-developers] Safe source list GLOBs

[Wojciech Knapik]

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:55:37PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote:

> Globs simply do not work well for source files.

GLOBs work great for source files. Just not with CMake currently ;]

> I don't think this will be come a module in CMake.
> 
> To have this work in a generic way, you would have to run something that 
> did the glob with each time the build system was run, and be able to 
> change the sources being compiled if something changed.   This would 
> have to work with VS, make, ninja, Xcode, and all the other generators. 
>    This module is very "make" centric and would only work for that 
> generator, so I do not think we would want to include it in CMake proper.

Agreed. The problem remains though.

WK