[CMake] CMake 2.8.6-rc1 ready for testing!

[Thomas Sondergaard]

On 2011-08-30 17:11, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> On 8/30/2011 4:11 AM, Andrea Galeazzi wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I'd like to know if the bug 0011258
>> <http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11258> will be fixed or the
>> community simply decided to give it up.
>> Any changes for 0012294 to be assigned?
>>
>
> I don't think we have given up, but we are certainly at a technical
> roadblock. No really has a solution that will work consistently.
>
> To give a background, the auto-running of cmake when input files change,
> and the subsequent reloading of the project in the VS 10 IDE is not
> always working. In VS 8 and 9, we have a solution that works pretty
> well. It does something like this:
>
>
> 1. cmake is run when any of its input files are changed
> 2. if cmake finds a running VS IDE that has the same project loaded
> - It pops up a dialog that gives the user the chance to:
> - stop the current build and reload the project
>
> This is done with a VS macro that is installed by cmake.
>
> This fails to work well in VS 10.

A possible workaround:
Couldn't CMake distribute a VS 10 macro that runs cmake externally 
before invoking the build. Then the user would invoke that command 
instead of the regular build. F7 or ctrl+b could be bound to this 
command instead of the regular build command.

Thomas