[CMake] Feature requests for CMake-GUI

[Michael Wild]

On 14. Jan, 2010, at 18:41 , Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Thursday 14 January 2010, Michael Wild wrote:
>> On 14. Jan, 2010, at 10:43 , Michael Wild wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>> 
>>> I normally never use cmake-gui, but did so for writing installation
>>> instructions. While doing so I came across some oddities and things that
>>> would be useful:
>>> 
>>> - It seems to be impossible to see the cache-variable descriptions
>>> 
>>> - Since cmake now has the --build option, it would be great if cmake-gui
>>> had the option of running some common targets (such as all, clean and
>>> install).
>>> 
>>> Are these items on the todo-list already, or should I open
>>> feature-request for them in the tracker?
>>> 
>>> Michael
>> 
>> Before I forget:
>> 
>> If the generator is associated with an IDE, it would be nice being able to
>> fire that one up!
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8664
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8260
> 
> Alex

Attached a patch to http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=8260 implementing the build/install/clean stuff in cmake-gui and adding menu-entries/buttons to open the source and binary directories in the file-browser. See the ticket or the header in the patch for more details.

Michael