[cmake-developers] Debugger for CMake

[Sylvain Joubert]

Le 30/01/2017 à 17:09, Justin Berger a écrit :
> a) Is this feature worthwhile for eventual merge into CMake?

No doubt! :-)

 > c) What is the best
> approach to make this kind of feature appealing to IDE / UI tools which
> currently work with CMake?
>

If I recall correctly, one of the initial use cases for the server mode 
was exactly that. The very first prototype of Stephen Kelly had this 
feature and could trace were a variable was last modified, make a diff 
of the CMake state between two locations in a CMake script,...

I didn't look at your code and I'll let the server mode maintainers give 
their feedback too but I guess the best way to go would be to jump in 
server mode to add that. Besides, the server mode is especially designed 
to be IDE friendly.

Sylvain