[cmake-developers] ExportImport test failures

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon May 20 06:18:04 EDT 2013


On Saturday 18 May 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
...
> It's one more reason to deprecate LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES(_<CONFIG>)? and
> introduce INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES.

can a different name be chosen ?
Somebody (Bjarne Stroustrup maybe ?) said, that a new feature/keyword/syntax 
should be either so similar to the old one that you usually don't notice a 
difference, or so different that it is really obvious, otherwise it will be 
confusing and users will mix them up.

Having LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES and INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES will make it hard 
to remember which one is the deprecated one and which one is the recommended 
one.

Alex



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