[CMake] Bug? Broken header files in Visual C++ 2008 project

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 05 September 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 04.09.08 21:50:03, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
...
> > This pops up a dialog in kdevelop saying "This project doesn't contain
> > any files yet. Populate it ?"
> >
> > Why ? The filelist file is not empty.
>
> For some reason kdevelop thinks it is empty. Looking through the source
> all it does is reading the entry from the dom, adding
> projectname.kdevelop.filelist and checking wether that file exists. It
> will also discover an all-lower-case name and rename that to mixed-case.

I will have a closer look.
Beside that, the algorithm looks ok or is there a better way ?

...
> > It's not a bug, it's a feature.
> > (seriuosly)
> > "No files must ever be created in the source dir" (could be read-only, or
> > intended to be packaged as a source package, without any additional
> > files, or different build dirs could use different IDE settings, etc.)
>
> I agree - in the general case. But I hope you can agree that its not
> quite good to loose all those customizations one does to the project.
> And some of them are completely unrelated to the building process - like
> environment variables for execution.

Well, yes, but the cmake devs are very strict with that requirement that no 
file must ever be written into the source directory, and I understand and in 
the meantime also agree with the reasoning.
So, yes, this is somewhat inconvenient but I think it's correct.

Alex