[FEATURE REQUEST] CMake and Colors

[Matt Rogers]

On Sunday 02 April 2006 16:38, Allen Winter wrote:
> 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

He's already aware of it and i believe is in the process of decoupling the 
doxygen stuff from the admin dir, but i could be wrong. Anyways, he's already 
said that doxygen stuff wasn't going to be a part of the build system anymore
--
Matt