On 05/16/2016 05:23 PM, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> Unfortunately many projects still use this for finding source files [1],
> without considering sorting.
> Without sorting it in file(GLOB), most of those packages have to be
> patched individually. Would sorting by default really have such a
> notic
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 09:27:57AM -0400, Brad King wrote:
> This has been proposed several times and never accepted because file(GLOB)
> is a primitive. As Petr said our documentation explicitly discourages
> the use case in question. Those projects that wish to ignore our advice
> can use list(
On 05/16/2016 03:06 AM, Petr Kmoch wrote:
> I'd like to express my concerns about the proposed change.
> CMake strongly discourages using `file(GLOB)` to find source files
[snip]
> On 14 May 2016 at 12:30, Reiner Herrmann wrote:
> @@ -1026,6 +1026,7 @@ bool
> cmFileCommand::HandleGlobCommand(s
>
> I'd like to express my concerns about the proposed change. CMake strongly
> discourages using `file(GLOB)` to find source files, since file additions
> then do not automatically trigger a buildsystem regeneration.
>
I second this. The intent of the patch is to address an issue that is only
pr
Hi all.
I'd like to express my concerns about the proposed change. CMake strongly
discourages using `file(GLOB)` to find source files, since file additions
then do not automatically trigger a buildsystem regeneration. So
well-behaved projects, which do not feed such outputs to add_*() commands,
wi
