[cmake-developers] [patch] Document -H and -B

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Jul 5 16:31:38 EDT 2016


On 07/05/2016 06:29 AM, Ruslan Baratov wrote:
> I don't see the point of introducing new options. Developers will still 
> use -H/-B because it's backward compatible, well known and will work 
> 100% because of internal CMake testing. That said if you want to improve 
> the current behavior of -H/-B (like confusing with --help/no spaces 
> between -H and <path-to-source-tree>) I can take a look. Otherwise I'm 
> not interested (usually it means that the improvement will be abandoned).

The conflict with the plain `-H` help option is another reason to
keep these options private.  I've outlined what is an acceptable
path to offer public options for this workflow.  If anyone wants
to do that then great.  Otherwise the status quo will persist.

-Brad



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