The following issue has been SUBMITTED. ====================================================================== http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15490 ====================================================================== Reported By: Stephen Kelly Assigned To: ====================================================================== Project: CMake Issue ID: 15490 Category: (No Category) Reproducibility: have not tried Severity: minor Priority: normal Status: new ====================================================================== Date Submitted: 2015-04-01 22:25 CEST Last Modified: 2015-04-01 22:25 CEST ====================================================================== Summary: Provide a stable interface to the cmake cache for external tooling Description:
External tooling typically parses the CMakeCache.txt file directly in order to extract essential information. The format of the file, and how to parse it are not documented, and it does not have documented stability guarantees. There is a need for tooling to read (and possibly write) cache values, so some stable interface should be provided. That can either mean 1) A new format in a new file 2) Documenting the existing format. The first option has the advantage that a common format for structured documents can be chosen (such as json). The second option has the advantage that external tooling does not need to wait for a new CMake version to generate a new file, because the existing format has not changed in a long time (and maybe can't change because of de-facto stability requirements for existing tools). ====================================================================== Issue History Date Modified Username Field Change ====================================================================== 2015-04-01 22:25 Stephen Kelly New Issue ====================================================================== -- 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
