Add `--format=json` option
- Dominant language
- C++
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- 21
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- 8
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Description
The default format, which is `pkgconf` compatible is useful for pkg-config, but also mixes various kinds of flags together on a single line. A JSON format could also be provided for tools willing to implement cps-config specific support, which would allow separating different kinds of flags. This would allow a build system to run cps-config once to get all of the information it needs, but be able to separate that information internally without post processing or running pkg-config/pkgconf multiple times with different flags.
One example where this may be important is separating the output of `--cflags-only-I` and `--cflags-only-other`
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Research direction
Start at the command-line handling for the existing format options and trace how cflags and other flag categories are collected. Define the JSON output structure for those categories and add support for --format=json; done means one invocation exposes separable flag information without post-processing.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp
- Domain
- cli
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100