[CMake] Bug fix requests for the *next* release of CMake...

[Michael Jackson]

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Mike Jackson                      www.bluequartz.net
Principal Software Engineer       mike.jackson at bluequartz.net
BlueQuartz Software               Dayton, Ohio



On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:06 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:

> On 05.11.10 09:36:39, Michael Jackson wrote:
>> I have an idea for a feature that might help resolve some of the
>> "Find***" issues. I would like to see CMake implement some sort of
>> "Software Update" mechanism where you could tell CMake to check a
>> central server for any updated FindXXX.cmake files and then download
>> them into the cmake installation directory. This would alleviate some
>> issues (cough ** FindBoost.cmake *** cough) where a critical fix gets
>> implemented but a user has to either compile from HEAD or wait for  
>> the
>> *next* release, which might be 3 months away. I would venture to  
>> guess
>> that most of the tweaks to the FindXXX.cmake files are CMake Major
>> version independent. This would be a nice way to push out small  
>> updates
>> that don't actually require a full recompile or newer version of  
>> CMake to
>> be installed.
>
> But it'll only work on Windows and/or MacOSX. On Linux the average  
> user
> won't have write access to the location of the modules. So in addition
> cmake will have to implement a way to also look into the users home- 
> folder
> or something like that.
>
> Andreas
>

I just thought of that myself after I hit sent. There are definitely  
issues to be resolved but I don't think it is anything insurmountable.  
For OS X and Windows each Operating System has specific "Application  
Support" folders where these things can be stored in. For Linux the  
usual .cmake type of folder could be used.

  Anyways, if we want to discuss this further I should open a bug  
instead of hijacking this thread.

Thanks for the feedback
--
Mike Jackson