[cmake-developers] making exports first-class (was: Making Config.cmake files easier to write)

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> If anyone is interested in working on something like this the C++ changes
> you mention would need to make exports recorded by either export() or
> install(EXPORT) into first-class objects.  A major missing feature from
> them right now is having multiple logical exports with dependencies.
> Currently an export must include the transitive closure of its own
> dependencies.  If instead they were first class objects in CMake then
> then the dependencies of one export could be satisfied by an export-level
> dependency on another export.

Just to link all this together:

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12588
Discussion: 
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/2285/focus=2299


(It would be helpful to reopen the bug and link to the mailing list threads 
there)