[cmake-developers] Creating a separate project/package which provides cmake extensions/modules

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sun Jul 10 14:04:18 EDT 2011


On Monday 06 June 2011, Brad King wrote:
> On 06/04/2011 06:39 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > So, what we came up with is that create a new package which just contains
> > our cmake modules, so they can be used by non-KDE applications.
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > Do you think this is a reasonable plan or do you see conceptual issues
> > with it
> 
> This is a great idea IMO.  This type of project can be maintained on its
> own release schedule that meets its contributors' needs without depending
> on an upstream CMake release.
> 
> -Brad

How should we provide the modules ? How to deal with different cmake versions 
? How to handle CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ?
I'd be happy about getting input on this topic:
http://lists.kde.org/?t=131031764100002&r=1&w=2

Thanks
Alex



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