[cmake-developers] ExternalProject EXTRACT_COMMAND

[Brad King]

On 11/27/2013 12:19 PM, David Cole wrote:
> In fact, *all* the other *_COMMAND parameters to ExternalProject_Add 
> yield a time-stamp managed "step".... If the name of this parameter is 
> EXTRACT_COMMAND, then I would strongly suggest conforming to the 
> existing pattern, and making "extract" be a full-fledged separate step.
> 
> If you don't think that's appropriate, then I would suggest using a 
> different name than EXTRACT_COMMAND.

This is a good point.  One possible name is "DOWNLOAD_EXTRACT", but
if you have the interest it is worthwhile investigating how to split
extraction out to its own step that is present when needed.

-Brad