[cmake-developers] Preparing for 2.8.11-rc1

[Stephen Kelly]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:

>> You may have already realised that, for the same reason, I didn't work
>> more on this stuff either:
>>
>>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/6106/focu
>> s=6161
>>
>> That branch was just a proof of concept.
> 
> Oh, ok, here I assumed you would have finished it in the meantime.
> Can you try to get this in shape for 2.8.11 ?

No, I'm afraid not. I'm not certain the approach I took was the correct one, 
and I'm not taking over responsibility for the feature completely in 
general.

My patch would cause a fatal_error if an imported target (either generated 
or hand-written) has a target in its link interface which does not exist 
(even if it is not used). From my reading of what Brad wrote, that's 
plausible:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/6106/focus=6138

also, as the ImportInfo is retrieved when exporting targets, you may need to 
consider whether that can/should raise a fatal_error too.

So, I think there's more work to do on that feature on several levels, and 
in the interest of being clear :), I'm not taking over responsibility for 
that work, though I'll help with code snippets as I did before.

Thanks,

Steve.