On 10/01/2014 07:46 PM, Aleix Pol wrote: > I'm very interested in getting this in and iterating forward. > > Any comments? How do changes get integrated?
My main concern is that the format has not been proven with a corresponding implementation of an actual IDE/plugin to use it. Once we start producing a format changing it later will be problematic for compatibility. Even though we added a version number to the file, an IDE might not be updated along with a CMake that produces a newer version. Perhaps rather than a boolean "CMAKE_EXPORT_IDE_METADATA" setting to enable this, the value should be a version number. That way enabling it requires explicit specification of which format version is desired. In this case we would need to use a format version number that is independent of th CMake version number. It would simply be incremented every time changes are made. If the version number has the form <major>.<minor> then we could increment the minor number whenever fields are added and the major number whenever fields are removed or changed. -Brad -- 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