[cmake-developers] Improving the version selection behavior of EXACT

[Matthew Woehlke]

On 2014-10-03 03:35, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> find_package(foo 2.0 EXACT) means EXACT, i.e. only "2.0" is allowed. In most 
> cases this behavior is not the one that one would expect or need. Most people 
> would instead allow any 2.0.x version to match. This sort of selection is 
> currently impossible without additional effort in every Find*.cmake that is 
> used.

This is probably a bit late, but did anyone think of using "MATCHES" to
say "all provided components match exactly and the rest can be whatever"?

-- 
Matthew