[CMake] Documentation request

Michael Wild themiwi at gmail.com
Wed Dec 21 08:35:21 EST 2011


As I already said, all the old documentation (back to version 1.6,
AFAIK) is available on the wiki.

Michael

On 12/21/2011 01:12 PM, Renato Utsch wrote:
>> You ?
>> This represents a fair amount of work...
>> I bet that if no-one did it it is because it's a hUGe task.
> 
> Sorry, I am not that good with english, I meant as the CMake team with
> 'you'. But the 'CMake team' could do that with new releases, like,
> writing this warning with additions in the newer releases.
> 
> Or, the easier way, to mantain different versions of the documentation
> at the site. This is not difficult, maybe put the latest doc in the
> "Documentation" page and down in the "see also" of the documentation a
> link to the older ones, or maybe everything in the documentation
> page...
> 
> Renato
> 
> 
> 
> 2011/12/21 Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>:
>> 2011/12/21 Renato Utsch <renatoutsch at gmail.com>:
>>> I had the same problem a yesterday (or the day before) with the
>>> string( FIND ) command...
>>>
>>> I tried to find the cmake 2.8.4 docs but I couldn't.
>>
>> cmake command **itself** is able to spit out its documentation.
>> So
>>
>> cmake --help-command string
>>
>> will give you the hopefully up to date doc of the currently used cmake.
>> In the same way:
>> cmake --help-full
>> cmake --help-html
>>
>> will give you a doc similar to
>> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html
>>
>> but for the currently used cmake.
>>
>>>  I think you should do it, or at least to issue a warning (in the documentation) in
>>> every command that wasn't introduced in CMake 2.8.0...
>>
>> You ?
>> This represents a fair amount of work...
>> I bet that if no-one did it it is because it's a hUGe task.
>>
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