[FEATURE REQUEST] CMake and Colors

[Allen Winter]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 14:21, David Faure wrote:
> On Friday 31 March 2006 21:20, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Friday 31 March 2006 13:51, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > On Friday 31 March 2006 20:38, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > On Friday 31 March 2006 11:58, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > > Maybe we should create a file "kdelibs/cmake/modules/KDE4Defaults.cmake"
> > > > > or something like this, which contains all these settings
> Excellent idea !
> This way we can centralize
> 1) the forbidding of srcdir==builddir
> 2) the setting of CMAKE_INCLUDE_CURRENT_DIR to ON
> 3) the enabling of colors
  4)  the enabling of verbosity 
  etc

> 
> > > > > and e.g. also the FOO_INSTALL_DIR variables.
> Hmm, that's part of the kde4 paths, which apps -must- use when installing.
> I thought the idea of separating those 'defaults' is that they are actually
> optional; if a 3rd-party app developer already uses cmake with his own
> settings, he should use FindKDE4Internal but he doesn't have to load
> KDE4Defaults.cmake. Otherwise what's the point of splitting it out?
> 
> > > Yes, exactly.
> > > It would go into kdelibs/cmake/modules/, and be installed to 
> > > share/apps/cmake/modules/
> Yep.
> 
> > Another alternative:  put KDE4Defaults.cmake into the admin directory.
> > And since the admin directory is imported into each modules repository
> > we get the duplication for free.
> No, no - forget about admin. It will go away. We won't need it anymore.
> Duplication sucks, even when automated - so why have duplication when we can 
> just do "make install" in kdelibs and get the file for all other modules to use?
> 
> [ok we'll see what happens once we have to deal with kde-4.0-final's installed
> cmake files being used by every 3rd party apps and then we can't change anything
> in an incompatible way in those files... I just hope we'll have *really* stabilized
> everything by then.]
>
Worst case is that we have some stuff that will need to be hand-duplicated across
all the CMakeList.txt files.. I think.   Even though it is a pain to do that.

I sorta liked having a karma-protected admin dir.  But I'm ok trying without it.

Who will tell Adriaan that doxygen stuff in admin will need a new home? 
But that's for another thread.

-Allen


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