[CMake] Re: Why prefer ADD_SUBDIRECTORY to SUBDIRS ?

Colin D Bennett cbennett at gibibit.com
Mon Aug 20 14:50:21 EDT 2007


Christian Convey wrote:
> The online help says that we should use ADD_SUBDIRECTORY rather than
> SUBDIRS, but that SUBDIRS still works.
> 
> Does anyone know why we're supposed to prefer ADD_SUBDIRECTORY?

Perhaps there is an effort to use consistent naming for command names,
where the name is a _verb_ describing the command.

Most (but not all) of the CMake command names are verbs. For example:
Try_run, Set_target_properties, Execute_process, Find_library, Include.

Regards,
Colin



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