On 10/08/2015 02:28 PM, Daniele E. Domenichelli wrote:
> We've been successfully using this module for about 2 years now and we
> will continue to use it anyway, so I did not waste time...

I'm glad to hear that.

> I understand this is a quite controversial module, but I would like to
> stress that this is something that can already be done using CMake just
> by executing file(DOWNLOAD) and include(), this module just makes it
> easy to do it. Whether this is a security issue or not is up to how this
> module is used.

That makes sense, though I feel this may be a niche use case and would
prefer to hear more general interest.  If there is interest then for
upstream rather than a module perhaps this could be built in to the
include() command.

-Brad

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