On Friday 19 March 2010, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > On Thursday 11 February 2010, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday 08 February 2010, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > > > On Monday 08 of February 2010 12:42:02 Mike Arthur wrote: > > > > On 6 Feb 2010, at 14:41, Maciej Mrozowski wrote: > > > > > How about moving all shared .cmake files to either separate package > > > > > (or maybe with modules fetched from Internet, sth like knewstuff or > > > > > PEAR or just SVN) - as current kdelibs cmake policies are too > > > > > strict, besides rebuilding kdelibs just to get newer cmake files > > > > > seems silly. That would benefit both cases imho. > > > > > > > > How are the current KDELibs CMake policies "too strict"? What > > > > problems are these causing? > > > > > > http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_and_Source_Compatibility > > > (general) http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_Commit_Policy > > > (kdelibs/cmake) > > > > > > KDElibs CMake policies cause no problems - they solve them. It's just > > > this strictness currently may seem to discourage developers from > > > getting their .cmake files in shape and pushing them to kdelibs instead > > > of bundling within modules (like kdenetwork etc). > > > > If we would have another package just consisting of cmake files, I think > > the same rules would have to apply to it, and I think this may have the > > same effect on the developers. > > Installing cmake files comes with a cost, so not sharing them if they are > > used only in some very rare cases also has advantages. > > How about this: instead of installing a bunch of FindFoo.cmake files, we > could just collect them e.g. in kdesdk/cmake/modules/ or something like > that. If somebody needs a module, he gets a copy from there and includes > this in his application. > This way we wouldn't have to care about compatibility, and still we would > have a place where people could manually get cmake find-module files.
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