[CMake] Source file symlinks on out-of-source builds

[Bill Hoffman]

Rodolfo Lima wrote:
> John Drescher escreveu:
>> install screen
> 
> Thanks for the tip but that's not my point in this whole thread (i.e.
> I'm not looking for solutions, I'm giving one).
> 
> CMake does so much complicate things to make working with software
> projects a seamless experience across different platforms that I doubt
> that automatically managing a symlink tree is such a huge effort.
> 
> You know, there's workarounds for everything. Before cmake I wrote a gcc
> wrapper to make its output look like what cmake does to it. If this
> wasn't implemented in cmake and I come up with this idea, people would
> say "but you can write a wrap to gcc to filter its output, why bother?".
> 
> That's how I see some suggestions in this thread. IMHO cmake came to be
> when people were sick of workarounds (like autotools) to manage
> projects. So why resort to workarounds like we used to do when better,
> seamless solutions exist? (I'm talking in the point of view of someone
> that doesn't use IDE's).
> 
I just think we already have a solution for out of source builds.  The 
symlink approach is yet another way to do the get the same thing done. 
There are tools out there that create sym-link trees (I can not remember 
the name, but I saw it once...)   Basically, I think this is a can of 
worms that we can do without as it does not really add that much.  I 
also think you underestimate the complexity and support of this feature.

-Bill