2012/8/25 Russell Wallace <russell.wall...@gmail.com>: > I don't understand what you mean, but explicit listing violates DRY in > a big way with the usual consequence, the two lists will inevitably > get out of sync. I'd rather use globbing (unless CMake has some other > method that doesn't involve trying to keep things in sync by hand)? > Even plain Make can use globbing reliably.
Besides the argument of tracking changes, portability comes in mind as well. Does XCode, Visual Studio, Eclipse (with managed Makefile) etc... do handle globbing as well ? CMake should be able to generate project files for all these build system so that relying on the fact that Make may handle globbing is not enough for making it work for CMake. Does your VCS (git, cvs, svn,...) do globbing for adding/removing files ? Probably not and for good reasons, the same rule apply for CMake. What you 'could do' is to craft some scripts (CMake or else) that may automagically update the extensive list of sources in your CMakeLists.txt. This script may be launched by a CMake custom target of yours, e.g. then you'll be able to do make up_src_list instead of editing the CMakeLists.txt manually, that said I doubt it would be worth the effort. My point of view is that globbing for source is seldom useful unless the sources files are generated. My opinion though. -- 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
