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Ship it!


Seems generally sensible. Just one thing that would make it nicer.


modules/ECMGenerateHeaders.cmake
<https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122317/#comment52489>

    Rather than artificially add yet another place to change when we introduce 
new variants, why not just make this part of the if/else statement in lines 
148-152 below?


- Alex Merry


On Feb. 14, 2015, 4:11 p.m., Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
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> (Updated Feb. 14, 2015, 4:11 p.m.)
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> Review request for Build System, Extra Cmake Modules and Alex Merry.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> There are at least two projects I know which have CamelCase.h headers, 
> Calligra and KDChart. Still it would be nice to also allow pure CamelCase 
> headers (suffix less) for usage by lib-using developers. Just, currently the 
> macro ecm_generate_headers assumes the original headers to be lowercase. So 
> it cannot be used for the mentioned projects.
> Worse, ecm_generate_headers also has a very nice additional feature, having 
> copies of the original headers in the build dir created with the same layout 
> as there will be after installation, so e.g. code of demos and tests can be 
> written as if it is 3rd-party outside the project.
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> Attached patch extends ecm_generate_headers to support an optional parameter 
> `ORIGINAL` (perhaps a better term could be found), by which the casing of the 
> original headers can be specified. Currently `CAMELCASE` and `LOWERCASE` are 
> supported. But perhaps one day someone could extend it for underscore-casing 
> :). The parameter defaults to `LOWERCASE` and thus should be backwards 
> portable.
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> Tested also with prefixes.
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> Not sure the assumption that the original prefix has the same casing as the 
> original headers, I remember to have seen code where that is not consistent. 
> But that step to implement is left for those persons who really need it ;)
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> Update:
> See also discussion at https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122193/ where so far 
> opinions are positive on this one.
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> Diffs
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>   modules/ECMGenerateHeaders.cmake bac5086 
>   tests/ECMGenerateHeadersTest/CamelCaseHeadTest1.h PRE-CREATION 
>   tests/ECMGenerateHeadersTest/CamelCaseHeadTest2.h PRE-CREATION 
>   tests/ECMGenerateHeadersTest/run_test.cmake.config 0a2425f 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/122317/diff/
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> Testing
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> Manually and in latest update also with 2 unit tests (hm, not sure if those 
> tests should cover more combinations with other parameters).
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> Thanks,
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> Friedrich W. H. Kossebau
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