On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2014 07:46 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > > I'm very interested in getting this in and iterating forward. > > > > Any comments? How do changes get integrated? > > My main concern is that the format has not been proven with a > corresponding implementation of an actual IDE/plugin to use it. > Once we start producing a format changing it later will be > problematic for compatibility. Even though we added a version > number to the file, an IDE might not be updated along with a > CMake that produces a newer version. > > Perhaps rather than a boolean "CMAKE_EXPORT_IDE_METADATA" > setting to enable this, the value should be a version number. > That way enabling it requires explicit specification of which > format version is desired. In this case we would need to use > a format version number that is independent of th CMake version > number. It would simply be incremented every time changes are > made. If the version number has the form <major>.<minor> then > we could increment the minor number whenever fields are added > and the major number whenever fields are removed or changed. > > -Brad > > Ok, I can start working on it in a KDevelop branch and see what needs to be changed. Regarding passing the version rather than "ON" probably makes sense. I'll work on a patch to make it work this way. Aleix
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