Review Request 120196: Find-Module to detect libgit2

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On Sept. 15, 2014, 3:15 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Shouldn't it be called FindLibGit2?
> > 
> > Git2 and LibGit2 seem different things to me.
> 
> Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>     I can rename it, but then it is inconsistent with most other FindXXX.cmake's, as they skip the lib prefix.
> 
> Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
>     I'm unsure it's inconsistent. The project is actually called libgit2, because it's a library that does git things: https://libgit2.github.com/
>     
>     As an example, here's archlinux:
>     https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/git/
>     https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libgit2/
>     
>     And in general, archlinux doesn't prefix the lib for frameworks anyway:
>     https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kcoreaddons/
>     
>     Does that make sense? :)
> 
> Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>     Ok, that seems to be reasonable, will change that, if Alex is ok with that, too ;=)
>     Other remarks?
> 
> Christoph Cullmann wrote:
>     Btw., that rename would imply that the vars are LIBGIT2_... and the Target would be LibGit2::LibGit2, or?

Yes, +1 to that.


- Aleix


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On Sept. 14, 2014, 10:19 a.m., Christoph Cullmann wrote:
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> (Updated Sept. 14, 2014, 10:19 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Alex Merry.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> Add a find module that allows to detect libgit2.
> Will be used by KTextEditor & Kate.
> Will remove the copy in KTextEditor after this is merged.
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> Diffs
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>   docs/find-module/FindGIT2.rst PRE-CREATION 
>   find-modules/FindGIT2.cmake PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120196/diff/
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> Testing
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> Tested with KTextEditor, version detection is here important, as libgit2 did change API a lot, seems to work on Linux, hope it works on Windows, too.
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> Thanks,
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> Christoph Cullmann
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