Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] Need ideas/opinions on third party library management

2016-08-12 Thread Elizabeth A. Fischer
> > This is what Spack and other meta builders do. I don't think CMake is the > best place to do it, for a number of reasons. I would not try to re-invent > the wheel here. > See http://github. com/llnl/spack > -- Elizabeth -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and

Re: [cmake-developers] [CMake] Need ideas/opinions on third party library management

2016-08-13 Thread Elizabeth A. Fischer
ke it will work > out. > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:41 PM, Elizabeth A. Fischer > <elizabeth.fisc...@columbia.edu> wrote: > > This is what Spack and other meta builders do. See http://github. > > com/llnl/spack > > > > On Aug 12, 2016 3:59 PM, "Rober

Re: [cmake-developers] Need ideas/opinions on third party library management

2016-08-16 Thread Elizabeth A. Fischer
CMake builds for existing libraries are certainly an interesting and useful thing, and deserve to be posted in a GitHub repo somewhere. They should also serve as the basis of a campaign to get the library authors to incorporate the CMake build directly in their repos. But any approach that