On 15-Mar-16 02:42, Tamás Kenéz wrote:
I also doubt this belongs to upstream. But you could write a single,
generic script which forwards its arguments to cmake and also accepts
and processes the additional parameters along the way. I don't think
we'd lose anything:
cmakeini -c ipad -H. -DTHIS_WILL_BE_FORWARDED=AS_IT_IS
This is the approach I took as I needed features like you described.
But if there would be a mature, versatile, community-tested script I'd
be willing to use it and contribute to it.
As you can see I'm already using script `build.py` and there is not
enough power for now (even if it extends CMake basic functionality a
lot) so I was thinking to introduce global/local ini-configuration file
anyway. Then I realize that most of the `build.py` functions can be
implemented in such ini-configuration. So why not use CMake? Why for
example not extend CMake GUI with this feature support? Why do users
need to install some extra tools instead of just one?
Global/local configuration files in not something special. Git for
example has same system, yes it increase complexity but literally every
user store setting there.
Just imagine you have to write something like this every commit + push:
> git commit --author="John Doe" --email="john....@example.com"
--branch="master"
> git push --remote="git://awesome.example.com"
This is a complete nonsense!
So I'm planning to make a fork anyway and do some experiments even if it
will not accepted to upstream.
Ruslo
Tamas
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Ruslan Baratov via cmake-developers
<cmake-developers@cmake.org <mailto:cmake-developers@cmake.org>> wrote:
On 14-Mar-16 21:59, Brad King wrote:
On 03/12/2016 08:04 AM, Ruslan Baratov via cmake-developers wrote:
I guess it is a well known fact that cmake command is
almost never
executed alone and for non-trivial examples usually hold
some extra
arguments (home directory, build directory, verbosity
level, toolchains,
options, ...). Also I guess that such commands doesn't
change from
day-to-day development process and an obvious way to
reduce typing is to
create wrapper build scripts (.bat or .sh, I personally
use a Python one).
Sorry, I don't think something like this belongs upstream. It
can easily
be done with shell aliases or other custom scripts.
I've got quite opposite experience. It's hard to say that family
of custom scripts (+ a lot of environment variables in .bashrc)
is an "easy shell scripting", example:
*
https://github.com/ruslo/polly/blob/162cd157d1d05261a7a708435197d883c4209005/bin/build.py
We shouldn't increase the complexity of the CMake command
line interface further.
To be clear this feature required only one new CMake option. The
rest is responsibility of some pre-build parsing module.
In general I feel sad that CMake will not became more
user-friendly in this exact part. Though the only proves of my
point that can be provided here is a users experience. Since I
don't see any feedback here I'm out of arguments...
Ruslo
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