microsoft / microsoft/vscode-cmake-tools
CMakeCache.txt file watcher
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enhancement
Feature: configure
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
### Brief Issue Summary
CMakeLists.txt and *.cmake changes are picked up automatically upon saving by configuring project. Would be nice to add CMakeCache.txt to the file-watching list.
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Contributor guide
Research direction
Search the file-watching logic for the existing CMakeLists.txt and *.cmake patterns, then inspect how those changes trigger project configuration. Add CMakeCache.txt to the same watched inputs and verify that saving it triggers automatic reconfiguration.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, typescript
- Domain
- build-system, tooling
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100