[cmake-developers] Making kwsys a proper library

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Fri Aug 21 11:10:07 EDT 2015


On 08/21/2015 10:58 AM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> CMake would have to ship with multiple versions of Boost, each subsetted
> and likely patched. That is hardly better.

This falls under the category of third-party libraries that are
candidates for use in the already-proposed cleanup of KWSys:

On 08/21/2015 09:27 AM, Brad King wrote:
> Some components of KWSys are present for historical reasons and
> can be factored out or removed now.  This will be a worthwhile
> cleanup regardless of the above discussion.

Some of the dependents may need to find alternatives as part of
this cleanup, but selections will need to be made on a per-case
basis.

-Brad



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