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

[Tobias Hunger]

Did anyone find some time for a review yet?

Best regards,
Tobias

Am 22.07.2016 01:37 schrieb "Tobias Hunger" <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io>:

> Hello fellow developers,
>
> https://github.com/hunger/CMake/commits/cmake-capabilities
>
> has my attempt to get "cmake -E capabilities" merged -- in preparation of
> the
> server mode.
>
> Brad already merged a big chunk of the changes, but he wanted to see the
> extra
> generator registration cleaned up before continuing. That has happened in
> the
> new push: The first patch adds a cmExternalMakefileProjectGeneratorFactory,
> which has all the necessary information so that cmake no longer needs to
> create
> instances of all extra generators during startup.
>
> Extra generators can now alias others -- which is used for the KDevelop3
> generator. Maybe we can just remove that? The comments claim the generator
> is
> for compatibility with cmake 2.2. That would shave a couple of lines of
> that
> patch...
>
> The capabilities work on top of that branch is mostly unchanged, but
> exposes an
> "isAlias" flag. I now suppress all aliases in the output of -E
> capabilities  as
> I think it makes no sense to have new code announce compatibility bridges
> (and
> the last version already hardcoded KDevelop3 to be suppressed).
>
> Best Regards,
> Tobias
>
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