[CMake] VS solution folder puts first project last

[David Cole]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
>>
>> Am Mittwoch, 17. November 2010 schrieb James Bigler:
>> > Has anyone else noticed situations where VS puts the first project (as
>> > determined alphabetically) in a project folder as the last project?
>>
>> Yes, I have seen this when using the new FOLDER property for targets. I
>> see
>> this behaviour within the folders.
>>
>> Eike
>
> I'm wondering if this is something that CMake could control.  I've looked in
> the VS sln file, and it appears that the projects are listed in the correct
> order.  Perhaps there is something subtle going on that is causing this to
> occur.
>
> James
>
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If you adjust their order in the VS gui, and then compare the sln file
to before you did that.... what changes?

I am guessing that the order we specify the guid mappings in the sln
file is the thing that controls the order here. There is no code that
guarantees alphabetical order within CMake (unless it is that way by
lucky side-effect).

But if you analyze and tell me what controls the order, it should be
easy to generate alphabetical order for the future.


Let me know,
David