Change tool metadata file format to JSON #1553
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…ting trivial destruction.
…the search loop, and get rid of magic numbers that is the length of the table.
Make the table be static data, deduplicate part of the expression in the search loop, and get rid of magic numbers that is the length of the table.
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| "name": "cmake", | ||
| "os": "linux", | ||
| "version": "3.22.2", | ||
| "executable": "cmake-3.22.2-linux-x86_64/bin/cmake", | ||
| "url": "https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.22.2/cmake-3.22.2-linux-x86_64.tar.gz", | ||
| "sha512": "579e08b086f6903ef063697fca1dc2692f68a7341dd35998990b772b4221cdb5b1deecfa73bad9d46817ef09e58882b2adff9d64f959c01002c11448a878746b", | ||
| "archive": "cmake-3.22.2linux-x86_64.tar.gz" |
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Since this entry has no architecture entry this version would be used on arm64 devices. Maybe the arch field should be mandatory.
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I think it's reasonable for there to be arch-less entries like scripts blobs or similar. A big reason to do this work is to enable arm64, but truly doing well there is going to imply minting arm64 binaries and similar; fully getting that on sounds like a separate feature though.
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Ok i hadn't thought about scripts, so one must simply be careful when adding entries
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(or user "arch" : "neutral" as an indicator for stuff which does not dependent on arch similar to how the vs channel manifest works)
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I don't think an explicit 'neutral' value is substantially clearer than just not having the field, and would be 'annoying' as we couldn't reuse the existing CPUArchitecture enum and friends.
EDIT: Oh I see it's necessary due to
I don't believe this is needed because all this stuff is already tested by the fetch tests. |
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Continuation of #1490
Related: #1277
This PR contains several changes:
vcpkgTools.xmldata into a JSON file and removes the XML parsing code.