[CMake] [cmake-developers] Forwarding parameters to cmake through cmake-gui

[David Cole]

> As I see it, folks that are used to cmake/ccmake tend to want 
cmake-gui
> to work more like that. Whereas folks that are used to doing 
everything
> from GUI's and hardly if ever touch a command line want it to work 
like
> we're suggesting. Both points of view are IMO valid (though I tend
> towards greater sympathy for the latter in this case).
>
> (Personally, I'd say I'm middle of the road; I use a CLI plenty¹ - 
and
> TBH, ccmake much more than cmake-gui - but I (try to) understand and
> respect the non-CLI use case.)


I would simply like to point out, with all due respect, that in the 
non-CLI use case, it is IMPOSSIBLE to pass command line parameters. 
Therefore, when discussing how command line parameters ought to behave, 
you do not have to consider the non-CLI use case. (Other than, 
obviously, not requiring any changes to the non-CLI use case to 
accommodate new command line features...)


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