KF5 Update Meeting Minutes 2013-w31

Nicolás Alvarez nicolas.alvarez at gmail.com
Wed Aug 21 20:27:12 UTC 2013


2013/8/21 Kevin Ottens <ervin+bluesystems at kde.org>:
> And that's exactly the point, in the case of dependencies management at build
> time I don't like how cmake handles variables at all[*] (and I don't think I'm
> alone in that, most of the people touching our cmake files have problems with
> it at some point... except you because you breath and live cmake for good
> reasons). That's why another more secure tool is more than welcome for that
> case, this way we can use something else than variables when we want to.
>
> [*] If it had a strict mode like perl for instance, I'd have a different
> position on that matter I think. But I don't think it has anything like that.

There's cmake --warn-uninitialized: "Print a warning when an
uninitialized variable is used."

-- 
Nicolás


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