[cmake-developers] Setting includes, defines and other usage requirements with one command

[Stephen Kelly]

David Cole wrote:

> If you do re-use target_link_libraries for your glorious "one command to
> rule them all," just be aware that you are invalidating 12+ years worth of
> everything ever written about it on the web, and the collective experience
> of thousands of CMake users around the world.
> 
> That is my objection to re-purposing the name target_link_libraries, not
> that you'd be doing more than linking. I don't think it's worth the
> confusion that might come after this.
> 

Thanks for clarifying. :)

I didn't mean to mis-characterize the objection. What I wrote was my 
understanding of Alex' objection and the assumption that yours was the same 
or very similar.

Thanks,

Steve