That sounds good.
On 1 Jul 2016 22:58, "Brad King" <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote:

> On 06/30/2016 05:35 PM, Dave Gittins wrote:
> > I don't understand the harm of documenting the options and making
> > them public.
>
> The discussion got side-tracked on how to do it with the currently
> documented interface.
>
> > Seems to me that they are
> > a) used
> > b) useful
> > c) safe
>
> We can consider making them public but in addition to the documentation
> we should:
>
> * Consider providing alternative options with more intuitive names
>   and making those public instead.  Currently "-H" stands for "Home"
>   which is an internal name within CMake's implementation and is not
>   a name whose meaning is public-facing.
>
> * Allow the form `-H <value> -B <value>` with the new names.
>
> * Extend the test suite (e.g. RunCMake.CommandLine) with cases
>   covering the public-facing options.
>
> -Brad
>
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