2012/9/27 David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com>: > Hmmmm. Good idea. > > Should we add a new command for this? Or should it be a sub-command of > "string(" like RANDOM is? > > And... while we're at it, I've always thought we should add the > ability to get the creation/modified/access times from a file via the > CMake file command. If we allow getting the "current" time, we should > leverage some of the same transformation-to-string code in the file > command to get the various times associated with a file. > > What do other devs here think: > New command or string sub-command for this functionality?
string sub-command for me, and agreed with Brad as well for the "namespace" thing. agreed with file(...) extension as well. that said isn't the "TIMESTAMP" misleading? shouldn't it be called "DATE" instead? -- Erk Le gouvernement représentatif n'est pas la démocratie -- http://www.le-message.org -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers