[cmake-developers] cmake -E capabilities [attempt 2]

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Brad,

I will add the requested changes ASAP, but I have hardly any internet
connectivity at this time, so it might take a while to get the
necessary patches in shape and sent.

Sorry for that!

Best Regards,
Tobias

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 4:25 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 08/03/2016 09:52 AM, Brad King wrote:
>> I've revised Tobias's commits to rename NewFactory to GetFactory and
>> explain some rationale in the commit message:
>>
>>  Refactor extra generator registration to use factories
>>  https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=a354f60c
>>
>>  Report more information about extra generators in generator factories
>>  https://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=cd52a225
> [snip]
> On 08/02/2016 02:30 PM, Brad King wrote:
>>
>> Once that tests cleanly I'll merge it to `master` and then we can
>> rebase the remaining changes on it.
>
> The above commits are now in `master`.  Please rebase the rest of
> the topic.
>
> Please update Help/manual/cmake.1.rst to document the
> `-E capabilities` option.  Also please add a case to
> Tests/RunCMake/CommandLine/RunCMakeTest.cmake to at least
> run `cmake -E capabilities` as a smoke test.
>
> Is there a JSON convention for documenting schema?  We will need
> to be able to document the capabilities output format as well as
> the protocol formats of cmake server mode.
>
> Thanks,
> -Brad
>