[cmake-developers] target_compile_features remaining issues

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 04/22/2014 08:51 AM, Brad King wrote:
>> We just need another interface to specify that the standard
>> request is a strict requirement.
> [snip]
>> for projects that have this requirement it is better to fail
>> due to a missing setting in CMake than work accidentally and fail later
>> when CMake is updated.
> [snip]
>> Perhaps another boolean property like CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED would work.
> 
> Please extend the decay-language-version topic to add this option
> and associated documentation.  We need to make sure users are
> aware that to be fully future-proof they need to use the
> CXX_STANDARD_REQUIRED interface.  Then projects can decide how
> gracefully they want to decay language support.

Ok, done. However, if it causes any dashboard trouble I'd prefer to back it 
out and defer it. It will trigger extra tests on platforms which I've been 
trying to ignore for the purposes of the compile features concept.

Thanks,

Steve.