Getting ecm files from the ECM package

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Friday 01 November 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Friday 01 November 2013 11:23:14 Mirko Boehm wrote:
> > On 11/01/2013 10:46 AM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > [1] Why not merge that into CMake ? For quicker releases, and even
> > > easier contributing. Also Bill once said that in hindsight he would
> > > have prefered if cmake would not ship any find-modules itself at all.
> > > So one could imagine that cmake would come without any find-modules in
> > > the future, and all find-modules would come from a separate package,
> > > e.g. ECM. This would make cmake the core tool, and ECM its "standard
> > > library"
> > 
> > I agree that a separation of CMake and the find_modules make sense. But.
> 
> My position indeed. I would agree at a "tier 0" if it didn't make it
> miserable for third parties wanting to use a tier 1 library in the sense
> of "oh by the way you also need that, and that, and that thing no one else
> use".

if a package foo uses ecm (or that non existing tier0 cmake package) itself, 
this does not mean that another package which uses foo, also needs ecm (or 
that tier0 package) at buildtime.

Alex