[cmake-developers] if (FOO == BAR) ...

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2013-03-21 14:56, David Cole wrote:
> Unfortunately, this entire discussion nicely demonstrates and reinforces
> my belief that we ought not to do this == thing...
>
> If Alex, Brad, Matthew and I can't understand each other's meanings
> within the context of this discussion, what chance does a poor user
> reading through the CMake IF documentation have of getting it right?
>
> Adding a new better way to do something without eliminating the old
> not-so-good way of doing the same thing is not necessarily a good thing.
> Multiple ways to do things just make people shake their heads and ask
> "Why?"
>
> I am still voting no on this one.

Honestly, I am inclined to agree. There are other reasons also, e.g. no 
other place in CMake uses symbolic operators.

I would prefer a policy to inhibit expansion in quoted strings. (And I'd 
like it to be ON by default for sufficiently new CMake version required.)

-- 
Matthew