[cmake-developers] Review Request: Topic ExternalProject-independent-step-targets

[Brad King]

On 11/22/2013 12:28 PM, David Cole wrote:
> So I would add to the documentation saying that typically, only the 
> download and update steps ought to be considered as "independent" step 
> targets.

Would it make sense to only allow it for specific steps, or to disallow
it for specific steps for which it is "known bad"?

> Also, I would ask Brad if the "-# ::" line you've removed is important 
> for the new documentation generation scheme... I would assume so, but I 
> do not know enough about how it works yet.

Actually the topic should be rebased on master to resolve conflicts
with the documentation formatting cleanup I made here:

 http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=01ecd24f

Thanks,
-Brad