[CMake] cmake-gui question

[Robert Dailey]

All very good points. I really don't care how this gets changed, just as
long as I can select by project name and not its build directory. If that
involves first selecting the project and then selecting its build directory
in a second drop-down box, that's fine too.

On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/4/5 Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com>:
> > I noticed that in the cmake-gui application (Windows),
>
> The behavior is the same on Linux.
>
> > the drop-down box is
> > on the binary directory edit field and not the source directory field.
> This
> > seems backwards to me. Was this decision arbitrary or by design?
>
> I don't know the reason, but I may say that:
>
> 1) If you choose the binary dir you'll automatically get
>     the corresponding source tree, because the build knows it's
>     source tree (by design).
>
> 2) If you choose a source tree you may have to chose between several
>     binary trees because in fact you have a 1 -- n relationship
>     between a source tree (the 1) and possibly many binary trees (the n)
>
> > If the latter, why? Would it be possible to move the history listing to
> the source
> > directory edit field?
>
> I think it would be interesting but then cmake-gui may not be able to
> "automatically" chose the corresponding build tree because there may
> be more than one.
>
> > The reason why I bring this up is because the binary output directory may
> > not always make it very obvious as to which source directory you are
> > building.
>
> However once you selected the binary tree you precisely know (with no
> possible error)
> the corresponding source tree.
>
> > It seems like the user would be more interested in knowing the
> > history of source trees they have built instead of where those binaries
> were
> > placed, which does not necessarily have to be a node within the source
> tree.
>
> If I were about to implement the feature:
>
>   - I would even say that I'll be more interested by a project name
> than a pathname
>     (I may check the path after the project has been selected)
>
>   - the multiple build tree problem should be solved by some pop-up
> and or message box
>     telling that there exist more than one build tree corresponding
> to the source tree/project.
>
> My 2 cents.
>
> --
> Erk
>
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