[cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

[Brad King]

On 06/08/2015 04:43 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> In fact, I added that in response to someone on SO recommending setting 
> policies to OLD and pointed them to the commit and the generated docs, and 
> they're still recommending the same thing as SO answers. Policies are alive 
> too long to be credible pending error-conditions. They look like - and are 
> treated as - feature toggles.

Given the existing docs you quoted I don't think any further docs
such as release notes will help.  We would need to add a runtime
warning to draw attention to pending removal.  It would be different
than the current "not set" warning and instead be "not set to NEW".

-Brad