[cmake-developers] RFC: add version to project() call

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 14 January 2014, Brad King wrote:
> On 01/13/2014 01:38 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > does this require a policy now ?
> > 
> > Somebody could set Foo_VERSION_MAJOR in the toplevel subdir, and have a
> > project(Foo)
> > call in a subdir, which would now unset Foo_VERSION_MAJOR.
> > The same for PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR, but this is maybe less likely.
> 
> I don't think project(Foo) needs to affect Foo_VERSION_* when no
> VERSION argument is given (but should handle empty VERSION "").
> It should still handle PROJECT_VERSION_* to ensure consistency
> with PROJECT_NAME.  That may need a policy, but it will be tricky
> because we need to know if the value came from a previous project()
> call or a user set() in order to know when to trigger compatibility.
> 
> Perhaps "project(... VERSION ...)" can set some cmMakefile variable
> internally that says the project knows about versions so it is okay
> project(Foo) calls to unset them in subdirs.  Then we won't need any
> policy because there is no change in behavior without modifying the
> project to add at least one VERSION to a project() command.

I updated the topic on stage, it basically does that now.
I haven't updated the test yet.

Alex