[cmake-developers] Recommended use of imported targets...

[Brad King]

On 02/28/2013 01:15 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> I am talking from the POV not of the developer using Foo itself, but from a 
> user trying to just build the project.
> Using a variable, it is obvious when looking at the cmake code:
> tll(hello ... ${Foo_LIBRARIES} )
> 
> using a literal, it is not:
> tll(hello ... foo )

Imported targets with namespaces like Qt5::QtCore are pretty obvious.

> So since yesterday I think I'll stay with recommending using and documenting 
> PackageName_LIBRARIES variables, and keep the targets internal.

Fine with me.

-Brad