[CMake] CMake terminology

[Robert Maynard]

cmake from the command line is still running the two stages, it just
doesn't allow for feedback/input from the user between the two stages.

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Ruslan Baratov via CMake
<cmake at cmake.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a question about CMake terminology. When we are using CMake GUI there
> are two buttons "Configure" and "Generate", hence we have two stages:
>
> 1. Configure step, when we do configuring project, effectively creating file
> with cache variables (which we can modify) without really generating native
> tools files like Makefile/*.sln/etc.
>
> 2. Generate step, when we do generating project using file with cache
> variables, i.e. create those Makefile/*.sln/etc.
>
> The question is about command line version of CMake. Since we do creating
> file with cache and generate native tools files in one step what is the
> right term? Is it a configure step because we read user's '-D' and create
> cache file?  Is it a generate step because native tools files generated at
> the end? May be there is a third name to describe the fact that it's
> configure+generate step?
>
> Thanks, Ruslo
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