[CMake] CMakeModules repository at GitHub?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 04 April 2013, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> On 4 April 2013 17:44, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net> wrote:
> > On Thursday 28 March 2013, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> >> To CMake maintainers,
> >> what do you think about creating new repository at
> >> 
> >> https://github.com/Kitware/CMakeModules
> >> 
> >> as incubator for contributed CMake modules?
> > 
> > we are in the process of setting such a "package" up within KDE, but with
> > *zero* dependencies to Qt or KDE.
> > It is called extra-cmake-modules and hosted in KDE git:
> > https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdesupport/extra-cmake-modules/reposito
> > ry
> 
> Are you interested in modules with multiplatform support (i.e. Windows vs
> Unix)?

Yes, sure.

> > We have not yet done an official release, but once we start doing that,
> > we plan to have them quite frequently.
> > 
> > It will have the same strict compatibility policy as cmake, because it
> > can break existing builds just the same way.
> 
> Sounds good.
> 
> From marketing point, I believe hosting such repo at github.com/CMake
> would be beneficial, but I understand there is no interest in that.

Currently it is simply easier for us to have it hosted on KDEs git server.
I'm no git expert, something with mirroring/cloning/whatever on github is 
probably possible, but we are not yet that far.

Alex