[cdt-dev] Managed Make Builder configurations

[Alex Chapiro <achapiro@xxxxxxx>]

I'm working around Managed Make Builder (MMB) Build configurations. 
Below I try to describe briefly the problem how I understand it and 
possible approach.
In MMB, configuration is now one-dimention element (its only parameter 
is variant - debug/release/custom_variants). It could be useful (for 
cross-platform development especially) to have more configuration 
parameters such as  build target architecture, target OS etc.  So in 
MMB  schema for abstract build targets I would like to have a set of 
attributes (such as CPU, OS, Variant, make target binary type - so, a, 
exe). This set of attributes can be different for different abstract 
build targets (for example, VC target maybe does not care about target  
OS and CPU). Each particular build configuration references to one of 
defined abstract build targets and can be distinguished by combination 
of inherited attributes, for example

Configuration_1: Linux/X86/Shared Lib/Debug
Configuration_2: Linux/x86/Archive/MyVariant

Attributes and their values also define configuration definition dialog 
layout.

It seems to be important because each attribute impacts all tool chain, 
not only compiler or linker, so it should be defined on the  
configuration level.

I don't want to describe now the details of possible solution. I just 
was wondering if this can be interesting to anybody else. If nobody care 
about that, I'll be looking for other way that doesn't impact existing 
MMB schema and API.

Thanks