On Friday 12 July 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > Yes, apart from tll-new-signatures, I'd like to try to get the
> > export-policy and target-LOCATION-policy topics from my clone into
> > 2.8.12.
> 
> Actually, the export-policy branch deprecates the ability to write code
> like
> 
>  export(TARGETS foo FILE fooTargets.cmake)
>  include(fooTargets.cmake)
> 
> without providing a more modern alternative (ALIAS targets). I think that
> policy should be in the release which introduces ALIAS targets, so I don't
> recommend getting export-policy or target-LOCATION-policy into 2.8.12.
> 
> I've pushed an implementation of ALIAS-targets to my clone. It's actually
> very simple, so I'm confident we can get it into the next release.

What was the purpose of those ALIAS targets, was it for header-only libraries 
?

Alex
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