[CMake] ccmake options organization

[Szilárd Páll]

I would also very much like to see some form of grouping to be
possible in ccmake. Right now, the only way to avoid clutter is to
mark the large majority of the variables as advanced and keep only the
ones that would be used frequently used and this is still just a
half-baked solution.

One neat way would be to have a tree-like structure (like aptitude)
based on variable prefix or even manually listed grouping would be
very helpful.

--
Szilárd



On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Tim Gallagher <tim.gallagher at gatech.edu> wrote:
> I agree, I much prefer it too. But the bigger issue for us is that our builds are on remote machines that we cannot X-forward, so the gui isn't even an option.
>
> We've been hearing people in our lab say "It would be nice if..." and so I thought I'd throw it out there to see what others thought and if our guys are just lazy/crazy :)
>
> Tim
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Wild" <themiwi at gmail.com>
> To: cmake at cmake.org
> Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 6:09:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [CMake] ccmake options organization
>
> On 06/13/2011 11:01 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> On Friday 10 June 2011, Tim Gallagher wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> We have a code that has a lot of options to enable/disable at compile time,
>>> and we'd also like to use ccmake to generate input files to run the code
>>> (possibly several hundred options combined). But the way the curses gui
>>> organizes things makes it really hard/tedious to keep track of things.
>>>
>>> Has anybody looked into creating something akin to tabs to organize
>>> options? A simple way, for example, would be to put options with a common
>>> prefix on it's own tab so they stay organized. So anything with CMAKE_
>>> would be on a CMake tab, anything with MPI_ would be on an MPI tab, and so
>>> on.
>>
>> cmake-gui, the really graphical client, does that already in the "Grouped
>> View" mode. I'm not sure much work will still go into ccmake.
>>
>> Alex
>
> Perhaps other people will tune in, so I just want to say that I much
> prefer ccmake over cmake-gui personally. Despite all its quirks which I
> would love to see fixed it allows for much faster editing without
> forcing me to tediously point and click with the mouse. But then, I'm
> also a Vim user...
>
> Although the grouping would be a nice feature to have in ccmake, it
> doesn't bother me since I use the search feature to achieve much the
> same. Instead of the grouping, I perhaps would even prefer a filter
> feature. Searching and filtering should IMHO support regexes (or globbing).
>
> Michael
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
> _______________________________________________
> Powered by www.kitware.com
>
> Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html
>
> Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ
>
> Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe:
> http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
>