[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 6:51 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> On 09/22/2014 07:15 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
>> > {
>> > version: "1.0",
>> > targets: [...]
>> > }
>>
>> Yes.  The version number could either be maintained as its own
>> thing, or just the CMake version number could be used.  Either way
>> the Help/variable/CMAKE_OUTPUT_PROJECT_TARGETS.rst documentation
>> should specify the format of each version.
>>
>> BTW, the phrase "output project targets" is not particularly
>> clear without knowing the feature already.  Perhaps some other
>> name like "CMAKE_EXPORT_IDE_METADATA" would be better?
>>
>> > I've never worked with those, but it sounds like it would make sense.
>> What about:
>> >
>> > {
>> > version: ..
>> > configurations: {
>> > { name: "Debug", targets: [...] },
>> > { name: "Release", targets: [...] }
>> > }
>> > }
>>
>> Yes, something like that.  I think you meant to use [] rather than
>> {} around the list of configurations.  In the case that there is
>> only one configuration for the generator we should still use a
>> list but have only one entry.
>>
> Sure :)
>
>
>>
>> -Brad
>>
>>
> Hi,
> Here's another iteration of the patch [1].
>
> Basically adopts the possibility to move some information to depend on the
> configuration. Currently it's only showing the I source files, I guess
> location, directory and installed should be moved as well. Correct?
>
> Aleix
>
> [1]
> New patch:
> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/0001-cmake-Add-option-to-generate-target-metadata-for-IDE.patch
> New output: http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/ProjectTargets.json
>

Bump.

I'm very interested in getting this in and iterating forward.

Any comments? How do changes get integrated?

Aleix
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