I wrote the documentation, added a genex test that checks it the given path is 
converted as expected on different platforms, and added another ExternalProject 
test for Windows that invokes pushd, which is is command sensitive to the path 
style. I wasn't sure about the VERSION I am supposed to write into the 
cmake_minimum_required() line in 
Tests/ExternalProjectShellPathGenex/CMakeLists.txt, so I chose 3.3.20150923. 
Maybe you need to adjust the version there? I tried to be as consistent as 
possible regarding the tests and their already existing fellow tests.

-----Original Message-----
From: Brad King [mailto:brad.k...@kitware.com] 
Sent: Donnerstag, 17. September 2015 15:56
To: Kislinskiy, Stefan
Cc: CHEVRIER, Marc; cmake-developers@cmake.org; James Johnston
Subject: Re: [cmake-developers] generator expression for path slash conversion

On 09/17/2015 09:51 AM, Kislinskiy, Stefan wrote:
> I wrote a SHELL_PATH genex which uses
> cmOutputConverter->ConvertToOutputFormat(..., SHELL) for the conversion.
> I decided to name the genex SHELL_PATH instead of TO_SHELL_PATH for 
> the sake of consistency to other genexes like LOWER_CASE. What do you think?

LGTM.

> I would write some documentation as well of course.

Yes, please.  Also please look at extending the test suite to cover it.
See Tests/GeneratorExpression for genex unit test examples.  If possible we 
should also have a case that uses it in practice in a way that fails on 
invocation of an actual native tool if the slashes are wrong.  That will 
confirm not only that the genex does what we expect but that it also solves the 
problem we're trying to solve.

Thanks,
-Brad

Attachment: shell_path_genex_v3.patch
Description: shell_path_genex_v3.patch

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