So, what am I to do? Should I file a bug report for this? If so, what should I put in it, cause it's not really a bug. It would at least be good to know if deprecated features will ever be removed, or if I need to set one or more policies.
Best regards, Marcel Loose. On Thu, 2009-04-02 at 08:27 -0400, Philip Lowman wrote: > On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Marcel Loose <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Philip, > > Thanks for your reply. Your solution is ok, but it looks a bit > like a > workaround for a feature that is missing, but was once there: > link_libraries(). > > To me, it's not really clear why link_libraries() has been > deprecated > and, for example, include_directories() has not. IMHO, using > target_link_libraries() for a general library has a too fine > granularity. > Suppose include_directories() were deprecated as well in > favour of, say, > target_include_directories(). That would create the same > problem: carry > around variables holding a bunch of include directories that > must be > supplied to each target. > > 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. > > I'm not sure why the feature was "deprecated". I didn't even know > about it until you posted the question! I also don't know exactly > what CMake's stance is on deprecation although I think the official > policy is not to remove old commands because it would break backwards > compatibility. The word "deprecated" can imply that the feature is > meant to be removed but doesn't necessarily mean so. The ambiguity > there really sucks. Perhaps "obsolete" is a better choice of words. > > > -- > Philip Lowman _______________________________________________ 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
