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Author SHA1 Message Date
Brad King
ef5a4d964b Deprecate "extra" generators in favor of cmake-file-api(7)
The "extra" generators were created in CMake's early years to provide
support for users of specific IDEs by directly generating their project
files alongside make or ninja files.  Nowadays the file-api provides a
more generic, maintainable, well-tested, and robust way for IDEs to view
CMake project build trees.  Deprecate the legacy "extra" generators to
encourage the corresponding IDEs to use the file-api.

Fixes: #19090
2023-02-15 10:48:26 -05:00
James Johnston
3bb707f0a1 Help: Improve formatting of variable documentation
Improve formatting, primarily by:

* Adding links to relevant commands, properties, generators, and so on.
* Converting code, symbols, paths, and so on to fixed-width fonts.
* Hard wrapping lines to 80 characters or less.
2015-08-21 09:32:08 -04:00
Brad King
684063c036 Refactor tool selection for edit_cache (#14544)
Refactor edit_cache tool selection to ask each global generator for its
preference.  Teach the Ninja generator to always use cmake-gui because
Ninja by design cannot run interactive terminal dialogs like ccmake.
Teach the Makefile generator to use cmake-gui when also using an "extra"
generator whose IDE has no terminal to run ccmake, and otherwise fall
back to CMAKE_EDIT_COMMAND selection for normal Makefile build systems.
2013-11-12 08:47:19 -05:00
Brad King
0fa9aea293 Help: Drop mention of cmake -i wizard mode
The parent commit removed support for this mode, so do not mention
it in the documentation.
2013-11-04 11:16:22 -05:00
Kitware Robot
f051814ed0 Convert builtin help to reStructuredText source files
Run the convert-help.bash script to convert documentation:

 ./convert-help.bash "/path/to/CMake-build/bin"

Then remove it.
2013-10-15 14:12:03 -04:00