CMake Daemon

[Aleix Pol]

On Sun, Jan 24, 2016 at 9:41 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> Hey Aleix, Kevin, others.
>
> Earlier this week I had the pleasure of attending the Berlin C++ Meetup, where
> Stephen Kelly of Qt, KDE and CMake fame spoke about his ongoing effort of
> refactoring CMake to enable proper IDE integration. He will repeat this talk
> at FOSDEM, if anyone attends that please go there and have a look at what he
> is showing.
>
> His demo is already capable of many extraordinary things:
>
> - semantic highlighting
> - context aware code completion
> - pretty context aware documentation
> - list of targets and their contents
> - includes, defines and custom compiler arguments for targets
> - ...
>
> Also, he showed his take on debugging of CMake scripts, based on introspection
> of the variable map at any given place in a CMakeLists.txt. This included
> diffing between lines which looked tremendously useful.
>
> I'm positively sure that this project would improve the CMake experience in
> KDevelop, and any other IDE, tremendously. The problem is that Stephen is not
> willing to complete the project on his own. He is looking for new people to
> adopt the code he has not yet merged upstream (afaik the diff stat was about
> +2000 -200 or so). He has promised to stay around as a mentor, both for code
> review as well as guidance in all things CMake.
>
> Personally, I am still spending my time on KDevelop's clang integration, but I
> would also like to help out with this effort in upstream CMake. But I really
> hope that more people from the KDevelop community and all the other IDE and
> editor projects out there could help Stephen in this effort as well. Tobias
> Hunger from Qt Creator also said that he will try to get an OK to be able to
> spent work time on this effort.
>
> @ Stephen: When will you make your cmake-browser and KTextEditor plugin code
> available? Ignore the code quality for now, I and others need to be able to
> play around with that! You also mentioned a Youtube demo - is that going to be
> the FOSDEM recording of your talk, or will you prepare a standalone one? Is
> that available already?

Hi,
My plan is to work on it, OTOH I'm not sure I have the energy to push
much into cmake before doing any of the required work in KDevelop.

I'll review what's there and see what's to be done, but I don't want
to promise in vain.

Aleix