On 5/15/2013 4:48 AM, Wojciech Knapik wrote:
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:55:37PM -0400, Bill Hoffman wrote:
Globs simply do not work well for source files.
GLOBs work great for source files. Just not with CMake currently ;]
No it does not. It is sloppy IMO. It will pick up junk files. It
can create a whole host of unpredictable things to happy. Let's say a
file is accidentally deleted, or added to a directory, or gets packaged
incorrectly. It moves the error to link or compile time instead of
configure time. Removing a file from the build requires deleting the
file from the disk instead of just removing it from a list. Also, it
requires the build system to query the whole directory tree before each
build so it is slow by nature.
I don't see what the big deal is. You run glob once from a shell or
editor and you get the initial list of files. From that point on the
effort to add/remove a new file to the list is trivial.
....
Agreed. The problem remains though.
I don't see it as a problem that can or even should be fixed.
-Bill
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