[cmake-developers] ExternalProject and git clone

[Bill Hoffman]

On 9/11/2013 10:35 AM, David Cole wrote:
>
> My main point being: if you're actively developing code in these source
> trees, then they're not really "External", are they?
If you want to take advantage of ExternalProject, then you have to make 
all your projects external even the main one you are developing.  That 
is just the nature of ExternalProject.  So, for most projects at least 
one of the projects in a "SuperBuild" will be the main project they are 
working on.   Having ExternalProject do an initial checkout is a great 
way to get an initial build for a developer.

-Bill