CMake support

[MikeMcQuaid]

Ack should support reading CMakeLists.txt files.

Would a patch for this be accepted?

[petdance]

Would it be --cmake or lumped in with --make? I think the latter would be better.

[MikeMcQuaid]

I'd say it should be --cmake as it is it's own language and when using a CMake buildsystem I'd want to disable --make and enable --cmake as the Makefiles are generated and therefore no longer interesting to me.

[nhooey]

I'm guessing petdance will say that this won't be implemented until Ack 2.0.

[MikeMcQuaid]

It should be a very easy fix, just searching based on filenames. It would be good to get it in before 2.0, if possible.

[MikeMcQuaid]

Any more thoughts on this? Just adding the search to .txt files works in the meantime but it would be great to be able to search only files named CMakeLists.txt. I tried to do it myself but my perl-foo isn't strong. I could maybe manage with some pointers.

[nhooey]

I'm considering forking ack to add many of the patches that petdance says he won't bother with until version 2.0. Stay tuned, and I'll notify you if I do this. Then we can add your feature.

[petdance]

How about you talk to me/us on the mailing list before going down the fork road, Neil?

[nhooey]

I had the impression that you weren't going to implement any new features until Ack 2.0.

I put in a pull request, complete with tests, that nobody has looked at, and there's a patch for files without extensions.

Could you have a look at those?

[petdance]

Post to the list and let's see what the accumulated readership thinks. When we're talking about changing stuff as potentially disruptive as file selection, I want to get public eyeballs on it.

[petdance]

Also, your link to that pull request is broken.

[nhooey]

The link is fixed now.

I'll post to the mailing list.

[petdance]

cmake has been added to ack 2.