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

[physhh .]

Well I've tried to make the problem as clear as possible but somehow it
seems it still wasn't clear enough.
In my opinion the solution which was proposed by Mathew was also pretty
clear - also not absolutly complete as he stated himself.

How should we proceed? I think Mathew understood what's my problem.


On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:18 AM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

>
>
> > On Nov 5, 2013, at 6:40 PM, Matthew Woehlke <matthew.woehlke at kitware.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On 2013-11-05 17:40, David Cole wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > 1. I can modify my shortcut / .desktop file (which I previously stated
> as a use case for the feature).
> >
> > 2. I can launch cmake-gui from the run / launcher dialog.
> >
> > In both cases, I'm not using a (full) CLI, but I can still pass "command
> line" arguments. (The latter is admittedly a little CLI-like, but its
> working directory is still poorly defined and probably you are not
> specifying a build directory in that case.)
> >
>
> Ok, I guess I should know better than to use the word IMPOSSIBLE...
>
> Although I would call both of those (perhaps sideways) CLI usage.
>
> I think the feature should be well-defined and easy to explain before it's
> implemented.
>
> I will defer to the wisdom of the crowd on this, (i.e. I've said my piece
> and now I'll be quiet) but if it can't be explained in a short paragraph of
> text, I still maintain that it's overly complicated.
>
>
> D
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