[cmake-developers] Review Request: Topic ExternalProject-independent-step-targets

[Brad King]

On 12/20/2013 08:35 AM, David Cole wrote:
>> Is it ok for you if I use the same topic and to update the unit tests 
> to
>> call it, so that this function is tested as well, even though this 
> means
>> updating the existing calls to ExternalProject_Add?
> 
> i.e. -- don't let a backwards compatibility break go unnoticed by 
> changing all the tests at the same time that you change underlying 
> CMake functionality.

This is why I requested earlier in the thread that the new test pieces
be put in a subdirectory or somehow otherwise isolated to avoid having
the new settings influence the existing cases.

Thanks,
-Brad