[cmake-developers] Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake

[Stephen Kelly]

Anton Makeev wrote:

> Not only do we reed it, we also have the UI that allows user to interact
> and  the cached values. That means we’ll have CMakeCache parser anyways
> and do not need these values in metadata.json file, as it was mentioned in
> parallel discussion.

Yes, that's what I thought. I favor documenting the existing format instead 
of adding a new json format for it. I filed 

 http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15490

to track the idea.

Thanks,

Steve.