# 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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**Post date:** [October 21, 2024, 8:27pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-front-end-tool/12812/4 "2024-10-21T20:27:36Z")

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> [@brad.king](#):
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> For reference, this was discussed…

I really hope that people will read past the implication that the idea was already discussed in these forums. That thread floats the idea that it should be possible to create post-hoc `cmake` subcommands like `cmake test`, presumably by putting an executable called `cmake-test` in your `PATH`. As far as I can tell, it **proposes no semantics and has almost no overlap** with what I’m proposing.

I appreciate the desire not to have names that might be useful to you in the future “taken” by other projects, but from that alone it’s what kinds of names would be acceptable to you. Can you offer any guidance?

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