On 2014-04-03 09:04+0200 Thorsten Behrens wrote: > Hi! > >> now that is a candidate: MS Word has the tendency to make things more >> "beautiful", like smart quotation marks and long dashes instead of minus >> signs/hyphens. Chances are that text editors (and even the DOS window) >> can handle these characters by showing the appropriate glyphs. > > It would have been helpful here, had CMake thrown some kind of warning > that there is some unrecognized input on the command line instead of > silently ignoring it.
Hi Thorsten: I agree with you. Therefore, I have reported this bad cmake behaviour as a CMake bug <http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14861>. The CMake software project is currently undergoing a quite interesting transition. There is still a lot of participation in the project by two or three paid Kitware developers (especially Brad King), but the proportion of CMake developers who are unpaid volunteers keeps increasing (thanks in part to git and the welcoming attitude of the Kitware developers to development efforts by the volunteers). As a result I think that a few years from now the volunteer developers will completely dominate this free software project. Note, the Kitware developers are generally much too busy to respond to bug reports, but I hope one of the current set of volunteers with knowledge of how the cmake command-line arguments are processed will deal with this bug. In fact, if you have the requisite knowledge of C++ (which I do not have), then I am sure from the general tone of discussions on the cmake development mailing list that if you wanted to follow up yourself to attempt to fix this CMake bug, your efforts would be welcomed by the cmake development community. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
