[cmake-developers] automatically download library

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 6, 2015, at 7:22 AM, Марсель Галимуллин wrote:

> I'm student of the University LETI and as a masrer's thesis I want to develop an extension to CMake. It is expected that this extension will automatically download missing library if instruction such as «find_package (Boost COMPONENTS system thread REQUIRED)» can not find the package. Could you give me some advices where to begin and which the best direction to design, develop and whether to do it?

If you need that for some special purpose, go for it, but it's probably not a behavior most users would expect, and it's definitely a behavior that would have to be disabled in any software installed by a package management system. (The package management system would want to be in control of what gets downloaded.)