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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 15-Mar-16 02:42, Tamás Kenéz wrote:<br>
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<div>I also doubt this belongs to upstream. But you could write
a single, generic script which forwards its arguments to cmake
and also accepts and processes the additional parameters along
the way. I don't think we'd lose anything:<br>
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<div> cmakeini -c ipad -H. -DTHIS_WILL_BE_FORWARDED=AS_IT_IS</div>
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<div>This is the approach I took as I needed features like you
described. But if there would be a mature, versatile,
community-tested script I'd be willing to use it and
contribute to it.<br>
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As you can see I'm already using script `build.py` and there is not
enough power for now (even if it extends CMake basic functionality a
lot) so I was thinking to introduce global/local ini-configuration
file anyway. Then I realize that most of the `build.py` functions
can be implemented in such ini-configuration. So why not use CMake?
Why for example not extend CMake GUI with this feature support? Why
do users need to install some extra tools instead of just one?<br>
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Global/local configuration files in not something special. Git for
example has same system, yes it increase complexity but literally
every user store setting there.<br>
Just imagine you have to write something like this every commit +
push:<br>
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> git commit --author="John Doe" --email=<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:john.doe@example.com">"john.doe@example.com"</a>
--branch="master"<br>
> git push --remote="git://awesome.example.com"<br>
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This is a complete nonsense!<br>
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So I'm planning to make a fork anyway and do some experiments even
if it will not accepted to upstream.<br>
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Ruslo<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:22 PM,
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03/12/2016 08:04 AM, Ruslan Baratov via
cmake-developers wrote:<br>
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guess it is a well known fact that cmake command is
almost never<br>
executed alone and for non-trivial examples usually
hold some extra<br>
arguments (home directory, build directory,
verbosity level, toolchains,<br>
options, ...). Also I guess that such commands
doesn't change from<br>
day-to-day development process and an obvious way to
reduce typing is to<br>
create wrapper build scripts (.bat or .sh, I
personally use a Python one).<br>
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Sorry, I don't think something like this belongs
upstream. It can easily<br>
be done with shell aliases or other custom scripts.<br>
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I've got quite opposite experience. It's hard to say that
family of custom scripts (+ a lot of environment variables
in .bashrc) is an "easy shell scripting", example:<br>
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We shouldn't increase the complexity of the CMake
command line interface further.<br>
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To be clear this feature required only one new CMake
option. The rest is responsibility of some pre-build
parsing module.<br>
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In general I feel sad that CMake will not became more
user-friendly in this exact part. Though the only proves
of my point that can be provided here is a users
experience. Since I don't see any feedback here I'm out of
arguments...<br>
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Ruslo
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