Re: [cmake-developers] Alternative Config.cmake format (was: Installing Qt5Config.cmake from the Qt repo?)

2011-11-01 Thread Brad King
On 10/31/2011 5:20 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Not sure what the other cmake developers would think about supporting an additional file format for the Config.cmake files, e.g. xml or json, so they could be easily used and generated also by other tools. I.e. not only by/for cmake, but basically

Re: [cmake-developers] Alternative Config.cmake format (was: Installing Qt5Config.cmake from the Qt repo?)

2011-11-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 November 2011, Brad King wrote: On 10/31/2011 5:20 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Not sure what the other cmake developers would think about supporting an additional file format for the Config.cmake files, e.g. xml or json, so they could be easily used and generated also by

Re: [cmake-developers] Alternative Config.cmake format

2011-11-01 Thread Brad King
On 11/1/2011 1:20 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Would you prefer XML, JSON or something else ? I have no preference. If the format is simple enough to parse in CMake code then it can't be too hard to parse with a C++ implementation later ;) However, note that you're trying to set a precedent

Re: [cmake-developers] Alternative Config.cmake format

2011-11-01 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 01 November 2011, Brad King wrote: On 11/1/2011 1:20 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: Would you prefer XML, JSON or something else ? I have no preference. If the format is simple enough to parse in CMake code then it can't be too hard to parse with a C++ implementation later ;)