On May 19, 2016 8:56:55 PM EDT, Paul Fultz II
On Thursday, May 19, 2016 at 7:30:07 PM UTC-5, Gavin Lambert wrote:
Yes there is a technical as well as a usability issue with hiding
cmake
file in some directory. This causes problems with other tools. You will no longer be able to install a boost library with `cget install boostorg/hana`. Instead the user will have to manually download the repo, unpack
the the
archive, and then do `cget install hana/build`. I find that unacceptable.
This is a defect in cget, if it does not expect/allow CMakeLists to be in a subdirectory. They are never supposed to be in the output directory of cmake (which defaults to the current directory), after all, so you always have to tell cmake where to find them.
'hana/build' is not the output directory, it is the directory where the guidelines says to put the cmake file. It is confusing, I know.
Also, there is no defect in cget. cget just calls cmake on whatever directory you give it. cget can also unpack a tar file and call cmake on that as well. It can also download a file, untar it, and call cmake on that as well.
cget could take the subdirectory as an argument and use it after untarring, etc. The lack of that feature could be considered a defect. ___ Rob (Sent from my portable computation engine)