KDE/kdelibs/cmake/modules
Lubos Lunak
l.lunak at suse.cz
Fri Jan 4 13:42:24 CET 2008
On Friday 04 of January 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Yes, it is very unlikely, but very unlikely != impossible.
> The thing is, the names were in sync with the names of the variables in the
> FindX11.cmake of cmake cvs since several months.
> So since several months some cmake cvs users may already use that variable.
> Ok, it is the cvs version only, but still it is there for quite some time
> already and changing this can break the build of somebody (you never know
> what somebody does with the variables). So this change means either we can
> never use the module from cmake or I need to add some transition logic on
> the cmake side.
> So is it really necessary to change the name ?
I guess that depends on which of changing a rarely used name from cmake cvs
and having a confusing rarely used name you consider to be worse.
> > > We are at the day of the tagging, IMO too late for such changes.
> >
> > It was broken.
>
> In which way was it exactly broken ?
Somebody got confused by the names and it didn't match in
kdebase/workspace/CMakeChecks.cmake.
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