[cmake-developers] Extracting target metadata, IDE integration

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 12/18/2014 09:02 PM, Aleix Pol wrote:
>> I would like to propose this as a final version of this patch.
>> http://proli.net/meu/kdevelop/0001-cmake-Add-option-to-generate-target-metadata-for-IDE.patch
>
> For reference, this was also attached in a later message of this
> thread on 2015-01-09:
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=12061
>
>> I have a working proof of concept in KDevelop already I'm quite happy with.
>
> Can you post a link to that implementation so others may try it?
It can be found by:
git clone git://anongit.kde.org/kdevelop -b cmakePossibleTargetsFile

https://projects.kde.org/projects/extragear/kdevelop/kdevelop/repository/show?rev=cmakePossibleTargetsFile

>
> Steve K. posted a review of your patch on 2014-12-19:
>
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/10711/focus=11972
>
> that has not yet received a response.
Will look into these tonight.

>
> Also, for unrelated reasons we've now added JsonCpp into the CMake
> build process.  You could consider using that to write the .json
> file so that no manual formatting or escaping code is needed.
> The current patch does not add potentially needed json escapes.

I will consider to.

Aleix