[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015462]: Provide a machine readable way to determine the available generators

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15462 
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Reported By:                Stephen Kelly
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15462
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-03-21 09:17 CET
Last Modified:              2015-03-21 09:17 CET
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Summary:                    Provide a machine readable way to determine the
available generators
Description: 
As per 

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/12658/focus=12750

Providing some easily parsed way of determining the available generators for
IDEs would be useful. Eg:


 $ cmake -E list_generators
 {
   "generators": [
     {
       "name": "Unix Makefiles",
       "multiconfig": false,
       "recursive": true,
       "extraGenerators": ["Sublime", "CodeBlocks"]
     },
     {
       "name": "Ninja",
       "multiconfig": false,
       "recursive": false,
       "extraGenerators": ["Sublime", "CodeBlocks"]
     },
     {
       "name": "Xcode"
       "multiconfig": true,
       ...
     }
     ...
  ]
 }

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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-03-21 09:17 Stephen Kelly  New Issue                                    
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