[cmake-developers] CMP0022 documentation is outdated

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2017-12-24 00:01+0100 Domen Vrankar wrote:

> 2017-12-23 13:25 GMT+01:00 Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca>:
>> [...] So I guess the conclusion is
>> it's a very low priority to update the documentation of ancient
>> policies like this one.  I guess that's fine if the plan is these
>> ancient policies will finally be retired as of CMake-4 AND that new
>> major version of CMake (which presumably will be allowed to break
>> backwards compatibility) is coming reasonably soon.
>
>
> I don't know what the plans regarding bumping CMake major version or
> deprecating old policies are but I remember talks about deprecating some of
> them on the mailing list - couldn't find the mails though... but found this
> merger request that was already merged:
> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/743

Hi Domen,

Thanks for your response, but just to clarify, I said "retired" above
when the term "removed" would have been a bit better. If policies have
been removed, it means you can drop the support of the OLD policy
version (so CMake always follows the NEW policy from then on) and
completely remove all the policy infrastructure cruft for all those
removed policies. So that is obviously a different case from
"deprecated" where you still have to maintain the OLD policy and its
documentation.

Alan
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