On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 3:52 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <e...@sf-mail.de> wrote:

> Brad King 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.
>
> This probably needs a way to query for the IDE which versions the given
> CMake
> version supports, no? Otherwise a newer IDE may request version 3 and just
> get
> nothing because the CMake binary only supports 1 and 2.
>
> Eike
> --


If it's not available then it should just error out.

Aleix

PS: I'm alive, working on this, when I get some free time
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