Re: [cmake-developers] How to handle configurations (Was: Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake)

2015-03-23 Thread Stephen Kelly
Tobias Hunger wrote: Hi Stephen, On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: So, the design question I have is: * Is lots of repetition ok in the metadata file? If it can not be avoided, then so be it. It can be avoided at the cost of computation. I

Re: [cmake-developers] How to handle configurations (Was: Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake)

2015-03-22 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Stephen, On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 10:56 AM, Stephen Kelly steve...@gmail.com wrote: So, the design question I have is: * Is lots of repetition ok in the metadata file? If it can not be avoided, then so be it. The answer will be re-used in many other places. For example, if I have a

[cmake-developers] How to handle configurations (Was: Generating buildsystem metadata from CMake)

2015-03-21 Thread Stephen Kelly
This seems to be to be a design point which we are blocked on. There are many different ideas floating around. I think we need to talk about what would be generated for actual CMakeLists files, and how tools would parse the result. I suggest starting with the Tests/Metadata/CMakeLists.txt