[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Aleix Pol]

On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 6:12 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>
> Because it's not possible to change the generator of a build directory
> once it's set up. You need to nuke it and re-create it.
> Also because changing the generator could potentially change the
> interaction the user has with the build directory, we don't want to get in
> the way.
>
> Aleix
>

Bump!

Can I get some pointers about how to proceed?

Aleix
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