[cmake-developers] Generators and Extra Generators

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 07 January 2014, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> 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.

Sorry about that.
But it does something useful for me, and for other users of the (existing) 
kate project plugin.
Since one of the core features of cmake is to create project files for IDEs, 
creating project files for kate doesn't look that wrong to me.

> 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 

That would be nice.
Once this format exists, IDE developers just need to make use of it.

> Kate could use as it would list the targets, the compile lines
> for objects, link targets, link lines etc. 

Just to avoid misunderstandings: there is currently nothing in kate which uses 
such information, and as far as I know nothing is planned.

Alex
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