[CMake] cmake-gui, ccmake track user changes

[Philip Lowman]

Mod insightful +1
I would call it "Modified Variables" though instead of "User View".

...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 10:05:33 +0100 "Alin M Elena" 
<alinm.elena at googlemail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>This issue was touched twice in the past
>http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-April/thread.html#28419
>http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg22904.html
>
>Now I come with a feature proposal. I would like your comments on it before 
>adding it as an official feature request and maybe even start working on it.
>
>
>cmake-gui keeps track of user settings within a session.
>
>cmake-gui is very useful specially for complex projects where iterative 
>configuration may be required in order to fix all dependencies.
>A lot of times after you do the discovery step using cmake-gui the command 
>line equivalent is required.
>
>I propose to add a new view: User View that would highlight only the 
variables 
>with which the user interacted but not the ones that were triggered by 
setting 
>them.
>
>the output tab may for example show the cmake command line equivalent.
>
>Alin
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