[xsd-users] Makefile rules.

[Ray Lischner]

I don't think we could use that feature. When we compile schemas, we package the generated files, put them up in a repository, and other projects pull them down and unpackage them in a different directory. Each pull may use a different directory. The xsd compiler knows nothing about the destination directories, so it could not produce meaningful dependencies.
 
It's a good idea, however, and I think many other projects would be able to make use of this feature.
 
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From: xsd-users-bounces at codesynthesis.com on behalf of Boris Kolpackov
Sent: Fri 12/5/2008 4:05 AM
To: Bill Pringlemeir
Cc: xsd-users at codesynthesis.com
Subject: Re: [xsd-users] Makefile rules.



Hi Bill,

We have considered automatically generating makefile dependencies
for a long time now. For some reason nobody seems to be interested
in this feature. Basically, if you have b.xsd include a.xsd, you
will get something like this for b.xsd:

b.hxx b.cxx: b.xsd a.xsd

It will be trivial to do from the XSD compiler. All we need is to
figure out all the little details, e.g.,

- generating only dependencies as well as together with the C++
  code

- option to suppress inclusion of imported schemas in the
  dependencies

- option to generate do-nothing rules for schemas (so that one
  can remove a schema and still run make)

- allow to specify header and schema path prefixes (and probably
  regex'es for more advanced transformations)

Let me know if you would be interested in something like this.

Boris