[cmake-developers] policies in CMake builtin modules

[Nils Gladitz]

On 09/18/2014 04:05 PM, Brad King wrote:
> On 09/17/2014 02:25 PM, Nils Gladitz wrote:
>> I pushed "root-modules-set-policies-new" to stage which sets all
>> policies to NEW for modules from cmake's own Modules directory if
>> NO_POLICY_SCOPE is not used.
>
> A minor comment on the impl: use cmSystemTools::GetCMakeRoot
> instead of looking up CMAKE_ROOT.

Thanks, I'll try to remember that for next time.
I copied the use of CMAKE_ROOT from cmMakefile::GetModulesFile().


> However, I do not think this approach will work well in general.
> We do not have extensive testing covering all functionality of
> the builtin modules.  We do not actually know that all the
> modules will work with every policy set to NEW right away.
> Typically authors of projects that use the modules will report
> bugs if things break when the projects set policies to NEW.
> Meanwhile at least existing projects keep building with the
> OLD policy behavior.

OK, thanks.

I unstaged the topic.

Nils