Shipping a find script of a library with the library itself

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Nov 9 22:33:42 CET 2009


On Monday 09 November 2009, Stefan Majewsky wrote:
> Am Montag 09 November 2009 18:04:49 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > Move the Find-Script "upstream", i.e. in your case kdegames might be good
> > (unless you don't want to have a dependency on kdegames) or kdelibs.
> > Obviously the problem with that is the find-script has to be treated like
> > normal public API and cannot be changed so easily.
>
> I think I'll go with kdelibs then and request to move the find script
> there. The library has quite a simple layout (one shared-object and some
> headers, nothing fancy), so it should be easy to keep source compatibility.

Just so you don't miss the policies which apply to cmake files in kdelibs:
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_Commit_Policy
http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/CMake_Coding_Style

Should also have the "at least two users" requirement for moving cmake modules 
to kdelibs, as we have for other stuff which goes into kdelibs ?

Alex


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