KDE/kdesdk/kbugbuster

[Laurent Montel]

On Monday 15 May 2006 23:42, Allen Winter wrote:
> On Monday 15 May 2006 17:27, David Faure wrote:
> > On Monday 15 May 2006 22:55, Laurent Montel wrote:
> > > SVN commit 541270 by mlaurent:
> > >
> > > Add message to signal why kresource will not compile
> > > (I think that it will better to have a "configure.in.bot" into cmake)
> >
> > In other terms, this is a request for a way to collect warnings and show
> > them at the end of the execution. Could be done with kde-specific macros
> > or could be done in cmake. Any CMakeLists.txt in any subdir could "add a
> > message to the list", and then some code that runs at the end of it all
> > (I guess that would be the bottom of the toplevel CMakeLists.txt) would
> > issue those messages.
> >
> > Is there interest for such a feature in cmake or should we implement it
> > with our own macros?
>
> However we do it... let's please take this opportunity to come up with a
> standard message format.
>
> I don't like Warning in this situation.  I like better a wording that
> states you are missing features since you don' t have something installed. 
> And it would be nice to always have a URL pointing you to where the
> optional software can be obtained.
>
> Now, I haven't given this a lot of thought (Adriaan maybe has), but
> something like the following might be nice:
>
>
> "Notice:  Your build will be missing the following features because some
> optional software packages could not be located.  Please install the
> optional software as indicated below and re-run 'cmake' if you would like
> to have the associated feature enabled:
>
> FEATURE: gives extra coolness to kneato
> PACKAGE: cool software
> URL: http://cool_software.org
>
> FEATURE: weaponize your computer
> PACKAGE: libarmament
> URL: http://www.armament.org/download
> "
>
> So maybe we have a cmake macro
> missing_feature_message("description","package name","url")
>
> or something like this...
> -Allen

I agree with you.
A standard message format is a very good idea.
For me it will better that it will integrate into cmake and not just a kde 
cmake macro.