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

[David Cole]

> On Nov 5, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Matthew Woehlke <matthew.woehlke at kitware.com> wrote:
> 
>> On 2013-11-05 17:40, David Cole wrote:
>> I would simply like to point out, with all due respect, that in the
>> non-CLI use case, it is IMPOSSIBLE to pass command line parameters.
> 
> 1. I can modify my shortcut / .desktop file (which I previously stated as a use case for the feature).
> 
> 2. I can launch cmake-gui from the run / launcher dialog.
> 
> In both cases, I'm not using a (full) CLI, but I can still pass "command line" arguments. (The latter is admittedly a little CLI-like, but its working directory is still poorly defined and probably you are not specifying a build directory in that case.)
> 

Ok, I guess I should know better than to use the word IMPOSSIBLE...

Although I would call both of those (perhaps sideways) CLI usage.

I think the feature should be well-defined and easy to explain before it's implemented. 

I will defer to the wisdom of the crowd on this, (i.e. I've said my piece and now I'll be quiet) but if it can't be explained in a short paragraph of text, I still maintain that it's overly complicated.


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