[cmake-developers] Generators and Extra Generators

[Stephen Kelly]

David Cole wrote:

> There's been a design issue since extra generators were introduced...
> 
> The question is: is it possible to resolve it with a better design and
> still keep the existing functionality?

Hence this mail :), and my mail to cmake.users about the "Kate Extra 
Generator" being the wrong interface/design.

I'd like to see cmake generate all the info a UI would need in a simple and 
non-tied-to-a-particular-implementation way. That would be something Qt 
Creator and Kate could use as it would list the targets, the compile lines 
for objects, link targets, link lines etc. As far as I know, QtCreator uses 
the CodeBlocks generator because it contains all that relevant information 
as an xml file.

It's almost possible to do that with a macro and file(GENERATE), but more 
genex API will be needed for that. I think it would be fine/better to do it 
in C++ implementation though anyway.

Thanks,

Steve.