[cmake-developers] Future of ccmake and cmake-gui

[Ben Boeckel]

On Tue, Aug 15, 2017 at 22:33:04 +0200, Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
> With !977 merged, it is possible to base ccmake and cmake-gui on top of the
> cmake server.
> For demonstration, I copied the contents of the Source/CursesDialog
> directory and added a proxy implementation of the classes `cmake` and
> `cmState`. The result is 100% compatible with `ccmake`. The same would be
> possible with cmake-gui.

Well, not sure that I want *100%* compatible with ccmake if we're
rewriting bits of it; there are lots of improvements that could be made
;) .

> To make the server available everywhere, we should backport the code from
> C++14 to C++11. I think this is limited to replacing `std::make_shared`.

The make_shared function is there, but make_unique is missing in C++11.

--Ben