[cmake-developers] CMake daemon-mode

[Tobias Hunger]

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 11:27 AM, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel at pfeifer-mail.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Tobias Hunger <Tobias.Hunger at qt.io> wrote:
>> Please help to support your use-cases.
>
> A while ago I wrote a graphical cache editor in GTK:
> https://github.com/purpleKarrot/cmake-gtk
> The tool reads the cache and provides a graphical view to modify it.
> It can then write the cache, run cmake, and read it back.
>
> I wanted to see how close we can get to ccmake or cmake-gui without
> linking against CMakeLib.
>
> Here is what I was *unable* to achieve:
> * Separating Configure from Generate (two buttons).
> * Progress bar.
>
> Quite a short list, right?
> If we have a daemon mode that provides this information (as your
> implementation already does), we could let ccmake and cmake-gui use
> the daemon instead of linking against CMakeLib.

If the daemon can expose the right information, then you could even be
able to write a generator in e.g. python;-)

Best Regards,
Tobias