[cmake-developers] daemon-mode meeting last Tuesday

[Brad King]

On 06/24/2016 11:43 AM, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016, Tobias Hunger wrote:
>>>> So you opt for enabling the cmake-server to switch between different
>>>> build directories?
>>>
>>> Clients who need this feature could simply restart the server in the
>>> new directory.
>>
>> yes, that was what Stephen and me thought, too. I understood Brad to
>> imply that we should just do everything inside server-mode and fix any
>> fallout we run into instead.
> 
> To me it feels like the only reason why there is precedent for such
> switching within a single process, is that cmake-gui links against
> libcmake instead of using the cmake-server. I don't see any technical
> reason apart from that it hasn't been split into two processes yet.

Yes.

I was just pointing out that it is possible to use a single process
if we want.  If it is simpler to make the src/bld/gen settings part
of the startup command line then I think we should do that.

-Brad