[CMake] Inconsistent CTest/CMake variable naming
Maik Beckmann
beckmann.maik at googlemail.com
Fri Jun 20 09:14:15 EDT 2008
Am Freitag 20 Juni 2008 14:49:37 schrieb David Cole:
> Regardless of the answer to your original question, these variable names
> simply cannot be changed now.
Sure!
> There are too many scripts that run dashboards that set them as is. The
> best we could do would be to invent duplicate variable names that are
> consistent, but then we'd have duplicates and people would want to know
> which one they should prefer.....
>
> It's a can of worms you're asking about..... :-)
I prefer to pick just a few worm at time than :)
XXX_BINARY_DIR/XXX_SOURCE_DIR is something 99% of the cmake users know. IMHO
this justifies adding the clutter of making CTEST_XXX_DIR an alias for
CTEST_XXX_DIRECTORY.
-- Maik
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