cmake upper or lower case ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

in cmake the commands are case insensitive, this isn't the case for the 
special parameters, i.e. "SHARED" has to be written all upper case.
This means all following variants work:

ADD_LIBRARY(kdeui SHARED ${sources} )

I'd use this style, it's the classical cmake-style and doesn't look too bad in 
kate with syntax highlighting.

Add_Library(kdeui SHARED ${sources} )

Might be more pleasant to KDE developers, mixture between C-style and 
Qt-style. Might look a bit scrambled.

add_library(kdeui SHARED ${sources} )

Looks quite C-ish, but no "SHOUTING". Commands ("add_library") don't stand out 
of the rest.

A bunch of cmake modules for detecting and finding programs/libaries/headers 
will have to be written. Ideally they should go into cmake cvs. I guess the 
cmake developers will only accept modules written in classical cmake 
all-upper style. So for these modules the author probably would have to use 
this style.
This doesn't mean that the same style *has* to be used in the actual 
CMakeLists.txt, where the commands will be called. But IMO having one style 
for all cmake files is also something worth considering.

What do you think ?

(I'd like to get some opinions on this before I start finetuning the 
autotranslated cmake files manually, because after this it will be harder to 
change them all).

Bye
Alex
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