On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 12:30:21 Aleix Pol wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 3:58 PM, David Cole <dlrd...@aol.com> wrote: > > > It makes sense. But what IDE are you referring to? Eclipse? Some other > > > concrete example? Or just "any IDE and this feature should work > everywhere > > > CMake works...?" > > > > I'm working on KDevelop, I know for a fact though, that other IDEs are > > looking for something similar too, such as QtCreator. > > I still don't understand why this shouldn't be an additional > ExtraGenerator. > It will generate a special file intended to be used by KDevelop and maybe > QtCreator additionally to makefiles/ninja files. Could be called > "GenericJSON" > or so. > Other IDEs which don't support this file type but which need their own > project > file obviously still need their own specific generator. > > Alex > Because it's not possible to change the generator of a build directory once it's set up. You need to nuke it and re-create it. Also because changing the generator could potentially change the interaction the user has with the build directory, we don't want to get in the way. Aleix
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