[cmake-developers] [CMake] Support for multiple components in cpack

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 07 August 2010, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2010/8/6 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>:
> > On Friday 06 August 2010, Eric Noulard wrote:
> >> 2010/8/6 Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>:
> >> > On Friday 06 August 2010, Eric Noulard wrote:
> >> > ...
> >> >
> >> >> I think I missed the fact that you did not used component GROUPS
> >> >> at all in the first place :-)
> >> >
> >> > Sorry I didn't follow closely...
> >> > What is this GROUPS thing about ?
> >>
> >> see this:
> >> http://www.vtk.org/Wiki/CMake:Component_Install_With_CPack#Grouping_Comp
> >>one nts
> >
> > Thanks, cool :-)
> >
> > What would you think about a macro like
> >
> > cpack_set_component_properties(<component> PROPERTIES
> >                                           [DESCRIPTION "Cool stuff"]
> >                                           [DISPLAY_NAME "HelloWorld"]
> >                                           [DEPENDS value1;value2]
> >                                           ...
> >                              )
> >
> > I think I could come up with a patch which does that and put that into a
> > UseCPack.cmake or CPackMacros.cmake file.
>
> Alex,
>
> I'm lost :-)
> Why would be the purpose of such macro?
> Avoid the multiple
> CPACK_COMPONENT_${COMPNAME}_XXX  var definitions ?

Yes, looks a bit ugly IMO.

> I think there is already what we need in CPack.cmake with the
> cpack_add_component
> and
> cpack_add_component_group
> macros.

I'll have a look.

Alex