On 14. Jan, 2010, at 14:44 , Eric Noulard wrote:

> 2010/1/14 Michael Wild <[email protected]>:
>> 
>> Exactly, and having simple "VCR-controls" to build and install (and perhaps 
>> clean) would be enough for those users. They don't want to look at the IDE 
>> or the source code, they just want to build and install. Heck, it would be 
>> enough for me in the most cases (I don't like IDE's, I'm a Vim person). As a 
>> nice feature one could add a menu-entry to run CPack to create a native 
>> installer.
>> 
>> I think that cmake-gui could be the central place to drive simple 
>> configuration, build, packaging and installation from. For the fancy stuff 
>> the user will have to use the native generator (i.e. everything that can't 
>> be driven through cmake and cmake --build), but that's probably OK, these 
>> users won't mind.
> 
> I like the idea and it seems reasonable however since cmake has two UI:
>    cmake-gui
>    ccmake
> may be it's worth adding those feature to both UI ?
> 
> I mean being able to download source run ccmake and end-up with a
> installable package
> (TGZ, RPM, DEB)  etc... would be nice too.
> 
> Todays you may do it with an extra "make package" after you run ccmake
> not a big deal
> but the UI may let you chose the type of [supported] installer package you 
> want.


Sure, but I suspect that most users using ccmake will be comfortable with 
typing "cmake --build ." and "cmake --build . --target install". (BTW, why 
doesn't the <dir> argument after --build default to CMAKE_BINARY_DIR???)


Michael
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