[cmake-developers] cmake -E capabilities

[Robert Maynard]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:21 AM, Tobias Hunger <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io> wrote:
> On Do, 2016-06-30 at 14:16 -0400, Robert Maynard wrote:
>> It might be worthwhile to have the version section to have an explicit
>> dirty key instead of having to parse the string key to find that
>> information out.
>
> I'll make that information available in a separate patch and add it.

Thanks!

>
>> Also wouldn't you want server-mode to be an empty dictionary, as in
>> the future that would contain information like the wire format
>> version, etc.
>
> Getting the information here would be expensive (I would need to instanciate a
> cmServer to get the information) and I do not really see too big a need to add
> that information in the first place. Long-term I will just require a cmake with
> server-mode and "serverMode": "false" is enough to tell the user that she needs
> to update her cmake:-)
>
> The decision of which protocol to choose to talk to the server will be made
> later, in a different part of the code.
>

That is a very reasonable.


> Best Regards,
> Tobias
>
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