On Thursday 02 April 2009, Brad King wrote: > Alex, > > Looking at history I see this was deprecated by a patch you sent me. > Originally we called the command 'discouraged'. Why did we change > to 'deprecated'?
I don't remember why we changed the wording. The "deprecated" commands are commands which are in general not recommended anymore for use, but they are still available. I.e. as a replacement for LINK_LIBRARIES() there is now TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES() (since a long time already), which has advantages, and is in general recommended to be used instead, see below. ... > > I don't like to use deprecated features, so I would love to see the > > deprecation of link_libraries() to be reverted. But maybe I'm missing a > > good reason for not doing so. > > Marcel, feel free to use link_libraries if there is no better solution. > We do not plan to take it away. The word 'deprecated' is too strong. > > One difference between link_libraries and include_directories is that > library dependencies are chained automatically. If you write Alex _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
