I factored out the code from cmOutputConverter::ConvertToOutputFormat() into 
another helper method called ConvertDirectorySeparatorsForShell(), changed the 
SHELL_PATH genex to accept only absolute paths, and changed its documentation 
accordingly. I also added a BadSHELL_PATH test to the 
RunCMake/GeneratorExpression tests, that use the SHELL_PATH genex with an empty 
parameter as well as a relative path. I also fixed the TEST/CTEST typo you 
discovered yesterday.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad King [mailto:brad.k...@kitware.com] 
Sent: Mittwoch, 23. September 2015 16:57
To: Kislinskiy, Stefan
Cc: cmake-developers@cmake.org
Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] generator expression for path slash conversion

On 09/23/2015 10:45 AM, Kislinskiy, Stefan wrote:
> I see. I would suggest that I add another output flag to 
> cmOutputConverter like SHELL_NO_ESCAPE then. If this flag is passed to 
> ConvertToOutputFormat() instead of SHELL, the call of
> EscapeForShell() will be circumvented. This way there wouldn't be code 
> duplication and we would still cover the MSYS case (drive letter 
> conversion).

The conversion code in question is about 10 lines and could be factored out 
into another helper method.  Then the genex impl could just use the helper 
directly.

> Isn't it possible to specify parameters for generator expressions?

Yes.

> How about something like $<SHELL_PATH:c:/this/is/an/example,ESCAPE>?

Neat idea.  However, for now I'd rather not try to predict the use cases for 
which such parameters will be needed.  Instead we should just make sure the 
interface leaves room for future extension.  Since "," is allowed in paths we 
cannot simply disallow it or blindly use it as a separator.  Therefore we 
should have the actual path always be the last parameter.

For now I think you can just require (with an error) that the value given to 
SHELL_PATH as input must be an absolute path (cmSystemTools::FileIsFullPath).  
Then in the future we could recognize things like $<SHELL_PATH:ESCAPE,c:/path> 
without ambiguity.  Please include test cases for errors on relative paths (see 
Tests/RunCMake/GeneratorExpression).

Thanks,
-Brad

Attachment: shell_path_genex_v4.patch
Description: shell_path_genex_v4.patch

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