[CMake] Nesting a cmake project

Tyler Roscoe tyler at cryptio.net
Mon Jun 7 16:29:36 EDT 2010


I just looked at your email address and now I'm pretty sure I know why
I've had "Lonely Rolling Star" from the Katamri Damacy soundtrack stuck
in my head all morning :).

On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 02:14:00PM -0400, Nathan Huesken wrote:
> > 1. Why do you need to nest one project inside the other? I think you
> > will have less trouble if you treat each one as its own independent
> > project.
> 
> Because it the outer projects depends on the inner and they are
> strongly connected. It does not make sense to ship the outer without
> the inner.

But you might ship Inner without Outer, right? Or use Inner in a third
project, OffToTheSide? These relationships are easier to model and less
messy if Inner doesn't live inside Outer.

Anyway, just something to consider. 

tyler


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