[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Aleix Pol]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 1:02 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:
> Aleix Pol wrote:
>
>> Hi guys,
>> It's been since August with this. I understand we're all busy but this
>> step is important for KDevelop as well as for other IDE's and I
>> wouldn't like this to rot.
>>
>> Please, let's keep it moving forward.
>
> As far as I'm aware, it needs to move forward from this point:
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12151
>
> I'm not certain the design is finished (eg what the file should contain now
> or eventually). I asked for tests/documentation as a way to trigger getting
> the design finished. Having either would give us a list of use-cases and we
> would know what's in scope and what's not in scope (eg whether compile
> options/link options are in scope and why).
I can look further into documentation, if that's what holding us back.

>
> Another question: do you have any opinion about whether this should be one
> global file or one file per directory? I don't know - it seems like
> something that might or might not be relevant for tooling. Is the size of
> the generated file a consideration?
I think the best is to have it all in 1 directory. You don't really
want to have watchers on many files over there.

>
> How well does this feature work with large projects like VTK or a combined
> build of LLVM/Clang/lldb/libcxx/other ll projects.

I just generated the file for LLVM: https://paste.kde.org/pxl8ozwah
It's a 127KiB file, I don't think it's too mental considering it's a
330 MiB repository.

Aleix