[cmake-developers] cmake -E capabilities

[Tobias Hunger]

Hello,

On Tue, Jul 5, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com>,
me, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>>> Such a feature would also work with cmake projects if the user chooses to
>>> use the XCode generator on mac or VS generator on Windows (or if someday
>>> we have a multi-config Ninja generator or so).
>>
>> How is a multi-config ninja generator better than just having to build
>> directories next to each other, each with one configuration? You might
>> save a bit of disk space (probably not a lot). Will you save a significant
>> amount of processing time?
>>
>> The one benefit I can think of is switching between configurations will
>> probably be a lot faster. But that is nothing that is done so often that
>> it warrants optimizing for IMHO.
>
> What I have in mind is not optimization. As you say, if this is not needed
> at this point for IDE integration, then we can drop the idea.

I still do not get why this feature exists at all. What is the benefit
of having it? Is it just because xcode supports it, so cmake should
to?

>> Either the clients do not care or they need to know which configurations
>> those are going to be.
>
> This can be retrieved by reading the STRINGS property of the
> CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE cache variable.

Oh, that sounds interesting. I'll need to investigate this:-)

Best Regards,
Tobias