[cmake-developers] Generators and Extra Generators

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 07 January 2014, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> With the addition of the Kate Project stuff, we got 4 new generators rather
> than a single option to generate the information needed by Kate in a
> generator independent way, similar to CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user/48412/focu
> s=48471
> 
> The addition of an "Android Makefiles" generator would also require
> 
>  "Kate Project - Android Makefiles"
>  "Eclipse - Android Makefiles"
>  "CodeBlocks - Android Makefiles"
>  "CodeLight - Android Makefiles"
> 
> etc.
> 
> If android decides Ninja is a good idea someday, we get more dimensional
> expansion.
> 
> Is there a design issue here?

I run cmake-gui and select the one I want from a list.
What is the problem, the length of the list ?
Then just split the GUI into two dependent comboboxes.

Alex