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pip supports installing projects from a requirements.txt file (see https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/requirements-file-format/). To quickly install multiple repos, it could make sense to support something similar in cmakip, for example support:

cmakip install -r cmake_repos_to_install.txt

where cmake_repos_to_install.txt is:

git+https://github.com/fmtlib/[email protected]
git+https://github.com/gabime/[email protected]
git+https://gitlab.com/libeigen/[email protected]

At the moment, cmakip only permits to automatically install projects when a Conda or virtualenv prefix is active. In the AMI lab (https://ami.iit.it/) a common practice widespread among the members is to have an instance of the https://github.com/robotology/robotology-superbuild "active" in the system, and install CMake project in the install directory of the "activated" robotology-superbuild. Probably it could make sense to support such a workflow.

At the moment I can think of two ways of implement this:

• 1. Make cmakip aware of the robotology-superbuild in particular, checking if ROBOTOLOGY_SUPERBUILD_INSTALL_PREFIX is defined
• 2. Define a new environment variable observed by cmakip, called CMAKIP_INSTALL_PREFIX or similar, and define it in robotology-superbuild's setup.sh scripts.

I like option 2. to decouple cmakip and robotology-superbuild .

At the momement it is not possible to easily pass CMake option to the build created by cmakip.
Ideally we would like to be able to do something like that:

cmake install git+https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt -DFMT_MODULE:BOOL=ON