[cmake-developers] Alternate if() without implicit variable expansion

[Nils Gladitz]

On 11.09.2014 19:14, Brad King wrote:
> On 09/11/2014 01:07 PM, Nils Gladitz wrote:
>> I would have to add back lines to cmConditionEvaluator.cxx which where
>> removed while they were still in cmIfCommand.cxx.
> Look at the diff in commit 5922fc2c and you will see all those lines as
> removed from cmIfCommand.  You can put them all in cmConditionEvaluator.
> Some of the work is manual.  Effectively you are re-doing the refactoring
> from scratch without the CMP0054 pieces.  The use of Git up to this point
> is just to help get close.
>
> The reason I'm asking for this is that the refactoring done to create
> cmConditionEvaluator is more intrusive than the original CMP0054 change.
> It will be much easier to convince myself that the whole thing is correct
> if I can see the refactoring done first and independently.

Certainly, I don't argue against the change itself.
It sounded like there might have been some sort of git magic that would 
have made it less manual.

Thanks.

Nils