# CMake front-end tool

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-front-end-tool/12812
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 21, 2024, 6:34pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-front-end-tool/12812 "2024-10-21T18:34:01Z")
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### Author: ![brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/user_avatar/discourse.cmake.org/brad.king/32/11_2.png) [@brad.king](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/brad.king)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2024, 7:39pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-front-end-tool/12812/2 "2024-10-21T19:39:05Z")

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For reference, this was discussed in [Feature request: Add support for subcommands like git and many CLI utils do (cargo, npm)](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/11514).

I’d prefer not to add anything like this upstream yet, though I’d appreciate the name “`cm`” not being taken by a third-party wrapper so we can reconsider this in the future.

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