Re: [cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

2015-06-09 Thread Brad King
On 06/09/2015 11:24 AM, David Cole wrote: Is there a single example of a policy wherein the OLD behavior has actually been removed? No. This thread is about starting plans to actually remove some. It would good for all of us to understand exactly what it looks like to remove an OLD

Re: [cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

2015-06-09 Thread David Cole via cmake-developers
Is there a single example of a policy wherein the OLD behavior has actually been removed? Contributing to the problem is this: despite the policy mechanism, OLD behavior is never actually removed. Therefore, people know they can just set OLD and move on. The first policy was introduced in CMake

Re: [cmake-developers] [PATCH] DEFINES_FILE feature for FindBISON module

2015-06-09 Thread Brad King
On 06/08/2015 11:09 PM, 정언 wrote: New patches for FindBISON changes. Thanks. I revised the original module's documentation formatting and then rebased your changes on that. Applied here: FindBISON: Improve documentation formatting http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=801b799f

Re: [cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

2015-06-09 Thread Stephen Kelly
Brad King wrote: The intention originally was that the warning about the policy not being set would prompt project authors to port to the NEW behavior and set the policy. The only reason for the OLD setting is to disable the warning in stable release branches and such. It is also easy to

[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015606]: Having problem with building a C++ file using Cmake from linux to windows

2015-06-09 Thread Mantis Bug Tracker
The following issue has been SUBMITTED. == http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15606 == Reported By:Arunava Nag Assigned To:

Re: [cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

2015-06-09 Thread Domen Vrankar
A better Policy lifecycle would be 1) Three releases after introducing a Policy, we make OLD the same as WARN for it. That is, the only way to not get the warning will be to fix the code or use -Wno-dev. 2) After some time in years (depending on the impact of the Policy), we change

Re: [cmake-developers] A policy for Policies

2015-06-09 Thread Brad King
On 06/08/2015 08:43 PM, Fraser Hutchison wrote: As a CMake user, I have a couple of observations here. Thanks for coming forward to discuss this! users will be more likely to hit the page for the specific policy they're interested in, along with the page for the cmake_policy. None of these