[CMake] QtCreator Comments - was [CMake generators (Xcode and Unix Makefile)]

[Sergey Rudchenko]

В Чтв, 16/04/2009 в 13:58 +0200, Andreas Pakulat пишет:
> On 16.04.09 07:31:54, Michael Jackson wrote:
> > Basically what this boils down to is there may need to be a new generator
> > for QtCreator. This would require cooperation between the QtCreator team
> > and the developers creating that generator so that everything that is
> > needed is put into the generator.  This will end up being kind of a boot
> > strapping process at first but in the end I think would be well worth it
> > for both CMake and QtCreator.
> 
> Another option that can be considered is simply parsing and interpreting
> the CMakeLists.txt files in QtCreator. Of course that would be a lot easier
> if CMake would provide some of its internals as API in a library, as
> currently one has to check the source of CMake to find out how the
> functions are implemented.
> 
> This approach is what we've done for KDvelop4 and it works quite well (even
> though we don't yet support all things that the CMake api offers).

I guess we could just use internal CMake headers and link to CMakeLib.
As cmake binaries do. But this approach misses flexibility of separate
CMake upgrades (CMakeLib is a static library), I don't think it is worth
to use CMakeLib unless it will become a shared library.

Sergey