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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 31 July 2013, Brad King wrote:
> On 07/31/2013 06:44 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > 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 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 and double-colons-means-IMPORTED.
> > 
> > My preference is for 2.8.12 to be out soon and get those features into
> > 2.8.13.
> 
> I agree.  Several of Steve's topics are more mature than the
> one proposed here and he's waiting until after 2.8.12 for them.


I retract my proposal and deleted the branch from stage.

Since it was decided by KDE that the next generation of KDE libraries will 
make use of imported target names directly I think it doesn't make sense to 
add another "standard" variable nobody uses.

IMO this also means that also in the future there will be no standard for the 
naming of the results of a find_package() call.

Alex