In the context of http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14911 I've been
thinking it would be nice if there were properties for installed files
like there are for source files.
For my purposes they would have to be exported for CPack (e.g. in
CPackConfig.cmake) similar to how test properties are exported through
CTestTestfile.cmake.
The same properties may or may not be nice to have in the actual install
(cmake_install.cmake) as well though probably not for my use case.
Currently CPack support in cmake itself seems to be entirely cmake
script based which a new property scope in set_property()/get_property()
might break.
Some additional use cases that come to mind are:
- mapping the existing permissions to properties
- support for ACLs
- more elegantly tagging files for start menu or desktop links
- tagging configuration files in linux packages (e.g. deb conffiles)
Looking for any kind of input.
Nils
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