KDEInstallDirs variables

Alex Merry alex.merry at kde.org
Sun Dec 28 15:11:40 UTC 2014


On Sunday 28 December 2014 13:39:47 David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 10 December 2014 12:49:45 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Another option would be to upstream KDEInstallDirs.cmake into cmake, then
> > the CMAKE_ prefix would be Ok, and the two files
> > (GNU|KDEInstallDirs.cmake)
> > should actually follow the same guidelines.
> 
> Would that even be accepted into cmake?
> It would force requiring very-latest cmake, too. Unless we wait for a long
> time before porting to that new cmake module - but then it better not have
> the same name as the one in ECM, otherwise the wrong one will be picked up
> for some people...
> 
> At this point it seems this suggestion stalled progress completely, since
> that's a whole other direction to take, with many more complications and an
> uncertain outcome...

Oh, yeah, I never replied to this, sorry. I don't think that's the right 
approach, both for the reasons David listed and because there are variables in 
there that I believe really belong in the *Config.cmake files of various 
frameworks.

Alex


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