Hello,
I started working on a new c++ project comming back after 4+ years of
java coding.
For java, I use nexus, which is a binary repository server, that
provides an nice REST API that allows clients to download dependencies
by providing the library name and a target version.
I'm wondering if it would be feasible and difficult to port this logic
into a cmake plugin, and allowing the find_library to seamlessly
retreive the library from the system OR from a nexus server.
currently all our dependencies are stored in the svn, which slows down
our builds and is not very flexible.
Let me be more specific by describing my usecase.
1- On a Windows PC, I need the zlib dll and the standard C dll to build
my project
2- I issue a find_library command specifying both custom library paths
and a nexus server URL
3 - for the standard C library, cmake findsout that it's already located
into the system
4 - for zlib, cmake performs a request to the server which acknowledge
the availability of the dll
5 - cmake downloads the library in a cache folder and tells the
generator to link to the library it downloaded
6 - if the library cannot be found on the system and on the binary
server, cmake fails
7 - the same thing happen on a mac system, but this time both the C lib
and zlib are on the path, hence binary server is not even queried for a lib.
Could you guys give me your insights for this project?
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