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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-02-15 15:38:45 (GMT)
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Deprecate "extra" generators in favor of cmake-file-api(7)
The "extra" generators were created in CMake's early years to provide support for users of specific IDEs by directly generating their project files alongside make or ninja files. Nowadays the file-api provides a more generic, maintainable, well-tested, and robust way for IDEs to view CMake project build trees. Deprecate the legacy "extra" generators to encourage the corresponding IDEs to use the file-api. Fixes: #19090
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CodeBlocks
----------
+.. deprecated:: 3.27
+
+ Support for :ref:`Extra Generators` is deprecated and will be removed from
+ a future version of CMake. IDEs may use the :manual:`cmake-file-api(7)`
+ to view CMake-generated project build trees.
+
Generates CodeBlocks project files.
Project files for CodeBlocks will be created in the top directory and