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

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 21:28:40 +0200, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> personally I'm not convinced.
> Technically it would violate the "the source dir is read-only" rule.
> A typo would generate files. With multiple build dirs the behaviour will be 
> slightly different in the two dirs.
> ...not very strong arguments, but OTOH touching the file manually is also not 
> too complicated.

On case-insensitive file systems, there's also the "what if it exists,
but not with matching case?" problem. What was intended. Sure, CMake
will currently just leave it alone, but does the file exist? Is the file
on disk a typo? I don't think CMake can make that decision.

--Ben