Question about the state of Usages / Exports / public fields

[ClxS]

Hey all,
I haven't kept up with development of premake in a few years. I was wondering if there had been any movement on tackling simplifying transitive properties on linking projects?

I saw a discussion in Issues about a "usages" page which looked like it might someday lead to what I'm thinking, but I was wondering to see if there was anything else that had been added, or if there were any community projects available?

My current solution is an extension I wrote a few years ago, "exports"
Usage works like this:

project "Foo"
    kind "StaticLib"
    includedirs { "src" }
    
    exports {
        ["includedirs"] = path.getabsolute("include")
    }

project "Bar"
    kind "ConsoleApp"

    links { 
        "Foo" -- This would bring in foo/include
    }

[nickclark2016]

Take a look at this feature which recently landed: https://premake.github.io/docs/Usages-and-Uses

[ClxS]

Ahh thank you, when I looked before I'd landed on https://premake.github.io/docs/Usages/ and thought it looked a bit barren
This looks great.

[KyrietS]

Ah, yes, I mention this page in my review. We were supposed to remove it 😅