[cmake-developers] Feature suggestion: auto-create missing files

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 11:52:52 -0400, Brad King wrote:
> If this were to be done I'd first like to see a policy introduced to
> get rid of the magic extension guessing we do now.  Without knowing
> the full file name with confidence we wouldn't be able to create it.

This is already an issue here:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/15208

I have a branch which needs lots of work to be rebased properly; I can
dig it up if anyone is interested in taking it over before I get to it.

--Ben