[cmake-developers] Question about ALIAS targets

[Brad King]

On 06/05/2017 05:45 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Eg - making it easy to alias imported targets means you can easily get 
> imported target names which vary per project (Qt5::Core, Qt5::QtCore, 
> TheQt5CoreLibrary etc) which doesn't seem useful.

If we were to allow aliases of imported targets we'd also have to work
out the scoping rules (global v. local).

-Brad