On 02/27/2013 01:24 PM, Brad King wrote: > The argument splitting rule should remain simple: a quoted > argument is one value and an unquoted argument expands on ";". > What your topic needs to do is delay the expansion for unquoted > generator expressions from configure to generate time.
While I think this should be the plan moving forward, I do not think we should try to address it before 2.8.11. It will be a change in argument parsing handling. Without preservation of ';' in unquoted generator expressions they will not be recognized as generator expressions so the behavior will be no different from the same arguments in 2.8.10. Therefore we can introduce the argument parsing change later to introduce a new feature of allowing unquoted generator expressions that contain lists to be expanded at generate time. Your "Consider a genex as a single command arg" commit changes argument splitting to not use ExpandListArgument but cmGeneratorExpression::Split does not behave the same for all values. The original ExpandListArgument also preserves ";" inside [] blocks (added so that the registry entry syntax would continue to work for unquoted arguments; too late to change now). -Brad -- 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://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
