[cmake-developers] CMake aliasing system

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Mar 14 10:59:01 EDT 2016


On 03/12/2016 08:04 AM, Ruslan Baratov via cmake-developers wrote:
> I guess it is a well known fact that cmake command is almost never 
> executed alone and for non-trivial examples usually hold some extra 
> arguments (home directory, build directory, verbosity level, toolchains, 
> options, ...). Also I guess that such commands doesn't change from 
> day-to-day development process and an obvious way to reduce typing is to 
> create wrapper build scripts (.bat or .sh, I personally use a Python one).

Sorry, I don't think something like this belongs upstream.  It can easily
be done with shell aliases or other custom scripts.  We shouldn't increase
the complexity of the CMake command line interface further.

-Brad



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