<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:18 AM, David Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com">david.cole@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
The "Generate" button should be enabled after the first configure.<div><br></div><div>It's not enabled because the prevailing theory of the day was that you shouldn't allow generate unless there were *no* *new* cache entries after the most recent configure... -- force users to pay attention to those new red entries -- in other words, it's just history and reluctance to change behavior that's "always been that way"...<div>
<br></div><div>I've always thought that you should be allowed to generate whenever you want to: I'd go so far as to say that "Generate" should be enabled as soon as you open cmake-gui, and that, if there have not been *any* configure steps, it would do the same thing as command line cmake: configure once and generate, all in one click.<br>
<div><br></div><div>Please reply with more feedback:</div><div><br></div><div>How many of you would:</div><div>- keep the current behavior exactly as is, it's good</div><div>- enable "Generate" unconditionally</div>
<div>- something in between</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>David</div><font color="#888888"><div></div></font></div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>David C.,</div><div><br>I fear all of the votes for "enable generate unconditionally" will never be cast because the users that really want/need it are not on the CMake mailing list. I'd like to cast 32 votes by proxy in favor of the unconditional generate button!</div>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><br clear="all">Thanks,<br><br>David D.</div>