I didn't follow closely but... On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Rodolfo Lima wrote: > That would be a big mess, but if the script *works*, even with bad > behavior, so be it. Maybe a warning should be emitted. The point is to > guarantee that the script the author made will work the same way he > intended, forever. It would be wrong if we changed the behavior the > author relied upon. > > I think that this solution would let Kitware add disruptive features > with ease.
This is wrong. This would mean that the old buggy behaviour in the code would have to stay in an if(version==2.4.7) block, and next to it the fixed block for newer versions. This is not maintainable. Alex _______________________________________________ CMake mailing list [email protected] http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
