On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 5:29 AM, David Cole via cmake-developers < [email protected]> wrote:
> I would say there are no "gold standard" find modules. > > The gold standard is a project config file, like Qt5 has. > > From http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/manual/cmake-qt.7.html : > > "the Qt 5 libraries are found using "Config-file Packages" shipped with Qt > 5" > > Also, search this page for "Config mode": > > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/command/find_package.html > > Find modules in CMake should be the last resort option, when it is simply > impossible to add a project config mode file to a project. > Yes, in fact cmake builds of FLTK actually do provide a config file and the find module tries to locate it, but as I mentioned to Stephen, I'm just trying to improve the current module at this point. > On the other hand, if the intent behind your question is to make the > existing find modules all follow a given standard..... that's quite an > ambitious goal. Let's see if anybody else names actual names for the "gold > standard." In this case just the one. I'm not that ambitious as I'm just volunteering my time to various FOSS projects and still have to maintain a day job to pay the bills! Thanks, Richard
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