[cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

Ben Boeckel ben.boeckel at kitware.com
Wed Jul 8 10:34:10 EDT 2015


On Tue, Jun 09, 2015 at 11:24:03 -0400, David Cole via cmake-developers wrote:
> Is there a single example of a policy wherein the OLD behavior has
> actually been removed?

Technically, yes. CMP0053 as NEW ignores CMP0010's setting and treats it
as NEW (because the new parser doesn't implement the OLD behavior at
all). But CMP0010 is one of those "almost assuredly a bug" policies and
really easy to fix (just escape the '$' or add the closing '}').

--Ben


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