Hi Brad, >>> On 19-11-2010 at 13:41, in message <4ce6708a.8020...@kitware.com>, Brad King <brad.k...@kitware.com> wrote: > On 11/19/2010 03:56 AM, Marcel Loose wrote: >> Slightly off-topic: I couldn't find any references to this information >> in the CMake manual. > > That link was a design document. The actual interface is documented: > > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:cmake_policy > http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#section_Policies I have read these pieces of information before. However, from these pages, I couldn't really figure out how policies were supposed to work -- the whole OLD, NEW, WARN issue. The design document made that much clearer. So, I think the CMake documentation on Policies could be enhanced.
It also wasn't really clear to me which policies are set be default. I know that for each policy described in the section Policies, there's a line saying "introduced in CMake <version>", but I didn't know that that also means that these policies are set to NEW by default when using CMake <version> or newer. I think a table providing a quick look-up would really be helpful. Finally, I think it would be good to cross-reference the commands cmake_policy and cmake_minimum_required, even though they appear immediately after one another. Now that I understand the concepts behind policies, I think it's a well-designed feature. Best regards, Marcel Loose. _______________________________________________ cmake-developers mailing list cmake-developers@cmake.org http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
