[CMake] cmake-gui, ccmake track user changes

[Alin M Elena]

Hi,

This issue was touched twice in the past
http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2009-April/thread.html#28419
http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg22904.html

Now I come with a feature proposal. I would like your comments on it before 
adding it as an official feature request and maybe even start working on it.


cmake-gui keeps track of user settings within a session.

cmake-gui is very useful specially for complex projects where iterative 
configuration may be required in order to fix all dependencies.
A lot of times after you do the discovery step using cmake-gui the command 
line equivalent is required.

I propose to add a new view: User View that would highlight only the variables 
with which the user interacted but not the ones that were triggered by setting 
them.

the output tab may for example show the cmake command line equivalent.

Alin
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