[CMake] cmake-gui, ccmake track user changes

[Adolfo Rodríguez]

On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Clinton Stimpson <clinton at elemtech.com>wrote:

>
> Its already in cmake-gui.
> Get the CVS version and you'll see it under Tools -> Show My Changes.
> It'll give both -D command line arguments for cmake, and text you can use
> for an initial cache file.
>

This is great!. There are quite a few fellas out there that'll get happy
with this news. Should we expect this as part of the upcoming 2.8 release?

Adolfo


>
> Clint
>
> On 09/01/2009 06:08 AM, Philip Lowman wrote:
>
>> 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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