[CMake] What about...

[Thomas Zander]

On Friday 26 May 2006 16:24, you wrote:
> I am not sure I understand what you want to type to do the build?

williamMake would do; of wmake if you want. :)
Bottom line; I don't care what the name is as long as it _can_ be made 
more usable. Which is impossible with make.

You apparently are completely used to the idea of having to type really 
long, non intuitive (at least I would never come up with them) and all 
capitals variable names; but I don't like um.
And as I know a little about usability I know that the best way to solve 
the issue is to make it easier to find and type them.
My first solution there would be to have to most used ones part of a new 
imaginary command;
 wmake
with options like:
  wmake -v
which ends up doing the same as 'make VERBOSE=true' but be easier to find 
since its visible when the user types 'wmake --help'

If you read my email again you can see that you misinterpreted almost all 
my suggestions as they are all about this concept and not request for 
'how do I accomplish task X in cmake lingo'
For example: 

> >cmake install
> >to call 'make install' (naturally this goes for all targets)
>
> cmake -P cmake_install.cmake
> (that is what is run when you do make install)

Its not *just* about 'install'  Read my question again. And your answer 
hardly is easier to discover. (I bet you had to look that up! :)
The suggestion is to have a command, cmake in the quoted part, wmake in 
the suggestion above, that allows the developer to have a more usability 
friendly front end.

Since make currently is, well, I won't start cursing here :-)

Thanks
-- 
Thomas Zander
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