[cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

Bill Hoffman bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Oct 30 14:17:50 EDT 2012


On 10/30/2012 2:06 PM, Brad King wrote:
>> >Basically what you are saying is "it's our current policy", and it
>> >sounds like your group has made the decision about what that current
>> >policy is going to be.  Nevertheless, I still think you should
>> >advertise this limitation on your backwards compatibility further.
>> >"It's not covered" is not enough.  You should also have a big fat
>> >warning in Modules/CMakeAddNewLanguage.txt about this current policy.
The intention always was that new language support would be donated 
upstream and become part of CMake.  This would of course require testing 
and cross platform support for the language.  However, that was always 
the expectation.

-Bill



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