[CMake] [cmake-developers] CMake IR

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Thu Jul 30 11:15:21 EDT 2015


On 7/30/2015 10:48 AM, Dan Kegel wrote:
> I wouldn't mind getting rid of the cache, it's a bizarre concept that appears
> to be a workaround for users who can't stand starting cmake from a script,
> and it complicates my cmake scripts, but that's not a battle I'd like to wage.
No, it is how CMake stores things it finds during the configure step. 
If you did not have it you would have to rediscover everything for every 
run on a build tree, and have no place to store user selections in the 
GUI.

-Bill



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