James Johnston wrote: >> > it would be useful to have Visual Studio available as an "Extra" CMake >> > generator. For example, specification of "Visual Studio 2015 - Ninja" >> >> This functionality sounds reasonable but the name of the extra/generator >> pair looks funny when spelled out that way. We should consider having >> another way to specify the extra generator. > > This name is consistent with the other extra generators:
... however the design is not. The 'extra generators' do their generation after the 'real' makefile or ninja generator. Your proposal seems to be something different design-wise. From what I understand, you are proposing something which would need to do different things during the 'real' generate. In terms of name though, it might not matter that IDE and non-IDE 'extra' generators are implemented in completely different ways. > But I agree it is just confusing at this point. Maybe this format could > be deprecated in favor of a new cmake.exe switch to specify an extra > generator. Perhaps. It seems Xcode+Ninja could also be a valid pairing. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
