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

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Wed Jul 31 08:32:56 EDT 2013


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.

> When do you want to create 2.8.12 RC1?

As soon as things are polished up on the dashboard and we have
time to initiate the RC cycle.  Hopefully early next week.

-Brad



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