[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:30:21 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:
> > It makes sense. But what IDE are you referring to? Eclipse? Some other
> > concrete example? Or just "any IDE and this feature should work everywhere
> > CMake works...?"
> 
> I'm working on KDevelop, I know for a fact though, that other IDEs are
> looking for something similar too, such as QtCreator.

I still don't understand why this shouldn't be an additional ExtraGenerator.
It will generate a special file intended to be used by KDevelop and maybe 
QtCreator additionally to makefiles/ninja files. Could be called "GenericJSON" 
or so.
Other IDEs which don't support this file type but which need their own project 
file obviously still need their own specific generator.

Alex