[cmake-developers] Support for list length expression in if()-command?

[Torsten Robitzki]

Hi,
I have a customer that requires quite often to check, whether a list contains at least a given number of elements. As we do not have functions with return values, this requires him to inquire the length of a list before taking special actions.

To simplify that task (and without larger changes in CMake [like introducing *real* functions]), he came up with the idea to extend the if()-command with a LENGTH operator:

set(list)

…

if (LENGTH list GREATER 1)
…
endif()

Would such an extension be accepted as pull request, if we would provide it?

regards,

Torsten

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