[cmake-developers] Improved FindPythonInterp.cmake module

[Andreas Schuh]

Indeed, I should have looked at the most recent version instead of
this old patch found in the bug tracker. That module looks great.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:34 PM, Rolf Eike Beer <eike at sf-mail.de> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 12. April 2012, 11:57:10 schrieb Andreas Schuh:
>> Hi CMake folks,
>>
>> I run into a problem with CMake 2.8.4 which relates to the bug
>> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12338 . In particular, the
>> issue that not the default python executable was found, but the most
>> recent version that is installed. Thus, before noticing that this
>> seems to be fixed in CMake 2.8.6, I implemented my own
>> FindPythonInterp.cmake module for a project I am working on.
>>
>> As the new implementation also considers the PythonInterp_FIND_VERSION
>> and PythonInterp_FIND_VERSION_EXACT variables, I thought it might
>> still be of interest for future CMake releases, either just as
>> reference or to replace the current FindPythonInterp.cmake module in
>> which case the copyright and license notices may be altered so it
>> works for distribution as part of CMake.
>
> Please have a look on the version that is currently in the git repository and
> which will be part of the upcoming 2.8.8 release (and is part of both release
> candidates). It should have a pretty decent version selection that also allows
> one to select either python 2 or python 3 as well as exact versions.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Eike