[CMake] Why is macro PARSE_ARGUMENTS() not part of standard CMake modules?

[Marcel Loose]

Hi all,

As a spin-off of my question earlier today on INSTALL(CODE...) --
http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg37292.html --
I followed the link
https://github.com/commontk/CTK/blob/master/CMake/ctkMacroCompilePythonScript.cmake
that was supplied in the first reply and finally arrived at
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMakeMacroParseArguments which sounds like a
very useful macro to have.

I was wondering why this macro is only implemented in CPack.cmake as
cpack_parse_arguments(). Is there a reason for not having it as standard
CMake module?

Best regards,
Marcel Loose.


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Marcel Loose
Senior Software Engineer, Computing Group R&D, Astron, the Netherlands