[cmake-developers] Please restore --help-full cmake option for version 3

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2014-04-24 04:38-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> So in sum, please restore the --help-full CMake 2 functionality (or an
> approximation to it where you simply dump out all documentation
> classes to stdout) for CMake-3.

I also just discovered that --help-man and --help-html were gone as
well for those who preferred man or html formatting of the full
documentation as opposed to the ascii form delivered by --help-full.
The latter is the most important to me and is presumably the easiest
to implement, but I am sure others prefer the man page or html formats
instead so I hope CMake developers will deal with those cases as well.

And to adapt the polite but extremely useful "just my opinion"
phrase from David Cole that I just admired ( :-) )  ....

This suggested restoration of --help-full and the rest is just an
expression of my (strong) opinion that cmake 3 should continue to be
as convenient to run and use as cmake 2.

Alan
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