[cmake-developers] [CMake] CMake 2.8.3-rc1 ready for testing!

[Brad King]

On 09/28/2010 02:38 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> But it will always fail when a new version of cmake comes with a new version 
> of Foo.cmake which it uses itself, and relies on the new features.
> If cmake then gets the older tweaked version from the project we have the 
> problem.

Okay, so modules must always include their dependencies from known locations.
If an outside project wants to override a Find module it should also copy
the dependencies too.

> hammer:~/src/CMake/CMake-git/Modules$ grep FindPackageHandleSt *cmake |wc -l
> 86
> 
> IMO this would justify that new variable.
> (actually I wondered quite a few times since using cmake why such a  
> CURRENT_LIST_FILE_DIR variable is missing, using GFC() always feels like 
> using a clever trick instead of doing the straightforward thing).

Okay.  Your patch looks good.

-Brad