Hello, On Friday 01 November 2013 11:23:14 Mirko Boehm wrote: > On 11/01/2013 10:46 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > [1] Why not merge that into CMake ? For quicker releases, and even easier > > contributing. Also Bill once said that in hindsight he would have prefered > > if cmake would not ship any find-modules itself at all. So one could > > imagine that cmake would come without any find-modules in the future, and > > all find-modules would come from a separate package, e.g. ECM. > > This would make cmake the core tool, and ECM its "standard library" > > I agree that a separation of CMake and the find_modules make sense. But.
My position indeed. I would agree at a "tier 0" if it didn't make it miserable
for third parties wanting to use a tier 1 library in the sense of "oh by the
way you also need that, and that, and that thing no one else use".
> Then it is time to think of a way to integrate cmake with the separate
> source of find_modules. Algorithmically, it would look like
>
> PROJECT(MyApplication)
> FIND_MODULES_REPOSITORY("http://ecm.kde.org";)
> FIND_PACKAGES(KF5 REQUIRED...)
>
> and so forth. That would be a real breakthrough. It is related to the
> approach taken by Maven and others. All it takes is a built-in way for
> CMake to download the find_modules into a cache location and update them
> when needed, or on request.
Yes, that's definitely something we've been missing for a long time compared
to the java crowd who massively use Maven. It is an *excellent* feature, and
would solve this kind of headaches we have with the build system.
> This would also make a lot of things a lot easier. For example, nobody would
> need to separately install ECM, and updates to our ECM packages can be
> delivered globally by commits to that repo.
Yep!
Regards.
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