[CMake] OpenSceneGraph Find Modules

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 04 January 2008, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
...
> > Then I have a FindZeroCIce.cmake which essentially has this code:
> >
> > [...]
> > SET( ZeroCIceCore_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceBox_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceGrid_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIcePatch2_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceSSL_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceStorm_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceUtil_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceXML_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceExecutables_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceFreeze_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> > SET( ZeroCIceGlacier2_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
> >
> > FIND_PACKAGE( ZeroCIceCore )
>
> or simpler:
> foreach ( i Core Box Grid Patch2....)
>   set ( ZeroCIce${i}_FIND_QUIETLY TRUE )
>   find_package ( ZeroCIce${i} )
> endforeach ( i )
> That's not really worth a seperate module file.
>
> Maybe a scheme for module subdirectories should be created and added to
> CMake? There are probably plenty of such projects that are splitted into
> numerous sub-parts. A
>   find_package ( ZeroCIce COMPONENTS Core Box )
> could then automatically resolv to the above two parts but for the module
> files:
>   FindZeroCIce/Core.cmake and
>   FindZeroCIce/Box.cmake
>
> If that cannot be included into CMake, such modules could include the files
> in the subdir and evaluate the COMPONENTS themselves in a
> FindZeroCIce.cmake. IMHO using a subdirectory is way better than putting
> everything in the file name because at one point, the directory listing of
> the modules directory will not be readable anymore :-(

Yes.
Can you please open a feature request in the bug tracker for that ?

Alex