[cmake-developers] Introducing the ${Foo_TARGETS} variable (IntroduceTARGETSVariable branch)

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 31 July 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Comments ?
> > If possible, I'd like to get that into 2.8.12.
> 
> Note that even in KDE there isn't consensus on whether to rely on this in
> the non-short term:
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.core/80233/focus=80241

I'm (still) kind of willing to put in the work in kdelibs to get a proper 
buildsystem and work on that.
You disagree about the way to do that.
Everybody else is not working on it, and will more or less just accept the 
proposed solution.
 
> I don't see any particular reason to get it into 2.8.12. From the KDE
> perspective, I think it would be more useful to get a CMake version with
> ALIAS targets 

I still don't know what for.
Can it do anything I can't do by simply setting a variable to the aliased 
target(s) ?

> and double-colons-means-IMPORTED.

I haven't followed closely.
Does this mean creating a normal target which contains "::" will be a cmake 
error ?

> My preference is for 2.8.12 to be out soon and get those features into


I'd like to have that in 2.8.12 so we can make use of it in kde frameworks in 
a few weeks, not in 5 months or so.
I.e. come to a somewhat clean buildsystem.

Alex