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

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 05.09.08 21:46:17, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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 ?

No, I think the algorithm is ok.

> ...
> > > 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.

So we agree to disagree, as I don't think this is correct in all cases.
Anyway, I don't see cmake devs changing their mind on this, so no use in
going into endless discussions :)

Andreas

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