[CMake] Auto re-configuring until cache stops changing

[David Cole]

On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 11:23 AM, David Doria <daviddoria at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 6, 2010 at 9:18 AM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
>
>> The "Generate" button should be enabled after the first configure.
>>
>> It's not enabled because the prevailing theory of the day was that you
>> shouldn't allow generate unless there were *no* *new* cache entries after
>> the most recent configure... -- force users to pay attention to those new
>> red entries -- in other words, it's just history and reluctance to change
>> behavior that's "always been that way"...
>>
>> I've always thought that you should be allowed to generate whenever you
>> want to: I'd go so far as to say that "Generate" should be enabled as soon
>> as you open cmake-gui, and that, if there have not been *any* configure
>> steps, it would do the same thing as command line cmake: configure once and
>> generate, all in one click.
>>
>> Please reply with more feedback:
>>
>> How many of you would:
>> - keep the current behavior exactly as is, it's good
>> - enable "Generate" unconditionally
>> - something in between
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> David
>>
>
> David C.,
>
> I fear all of the votes for "enable generate unconditionally" will never be
> cast because the users that really want/need it are not on the CMake mailing
> list. I'd like to cast 32 votes by proxy in favor of the unconditional
> generate button!
>
> Thanks,
>
> David D.
>


:-)

OK. So far, we have these votes: 32 - 0 - 0

Anybody else?
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