[cmake-developers] Roadmap to CMake 3.0

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Montag, 21. Oktober 2013, 14:30:47 schrieb Brad King:
> On 10/21/2013 02:21 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> >> Potential changes motivating a major version number bump include:
> > One thing I was thinking about was to really have lists as lists
> > internally. Once you touch a variable in a list way (e.g. set() with more
> > than one argument or any of the list() commands) a std::vector<> would be
> > internally created and maintained as long as no non-list command (e.g.
> > set() with only one argument that does not contain semicolons) is used on
> > that variable. That way all following list-style accesses would be much
> > faster. And even semicolons in list elements would work that way.
> 
> In the long run this would be a nice internal cleanup.
> 
> However, please see:
> 
>  http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/8207/focus
> =8220
>  On 10/11/2013 04:30 PM, Brad King wrote:
>  > FYI, I started this roadmap thread to enumerate *already-ongoing* work
>  > that justifies a move to 3.0.  This is not a call for wishlist items :)
> 
> I don't want to enumerate a list of huge changes and delay the release
> until they are all ready.  Everything on my original roadmap is
> something already done.  I've accumulated these topics locally for over
> a year and need a major version number bump to integrate them.

Since it doesn't change any public API it could go in at any time. I'll see if 
I find time hacking on this, and them you can take it whenever it is finished.

Eike
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