[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Brad King wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 07:46 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
> > I'm very interested in getting this in and iterating forward.
> > 
> > Any comments? How do changes get integrated?
> 
> My main concern is that the format has not been proven with a
> corresponding implementation of an actual IDE/plugin to use it.
> Once we start producing a format changing it later will be
> problematic for compatibility.  Even though we added a version
> number to the file, an IDE might not be updated along with a
> CMake that produces a newer version.

This probably needs a way to query for the IDE which versions the given CMake 
version supports, no? Otherwise a newer IDE may request version 3 and just get 
nothing because the CMake binary only supports 1 and 2.

Eike
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