[cmake-developers] [CMake] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[David Cole]

> Would it makes sense to have cmake-gui behaving
> like ccmake ? After all there are both "UI".
>
> It would accept the same set of options:
>
>   -C <initial-cache>         
>   -D <var>:<type>=<value>
>   -U <globbing_expr>        
>   -G <generator-name>    
>  -T <toolset-name>         


It would appear that ccmake is behaving incorrectly with respect to -D 
processing... http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14538

So I think avoiding the phrase "like ccmake" in this discussion would 
be a good thing.

I do agree that ccmake and cmake-gui should behave the same with 
respect to these command line parameters. But I think ccmake is not the 
good example that we would want it to be...


David C.