[cmake-developers] daemon-mode meeting last Tuesday

[Daniel Pfeifer]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Brad,
>
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:46 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
>>>   * This is currently used to set sourcedirectory, builddirectory and
>>>     generator.
>>>
>>>     These three should be passed in via the command line instead, again
>>>     to avoid trouble with users switching to different build directories/etc.
>>>     while the daemon is running, which might trigger problems with state
>>>     cleanup, etc.
>>
>> Currently cmake-gui supports switching generators, build trees, etc., so
>> there is some precedent for such switching within a single process.  If
>> we have (re-)initialization bugs they should simply be fixed.
>
> So you opt for enabling the cmake-server to switch between different
> build directories?

Clients who need this feature could simply restart the server in the
new directory.