[CMake] Decompressing a file with cmake

[David Cole]

Right now, it's best to assume "a distant future release" -- but there will
definitely be a mention of libarchive support when it does go out.

Since we just transitioned to git as our repository, we are also revisiting
how we build releases. Keep your eyes open for future CMake release notes...


On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:

>  It sounds exactly like what I need (I'm already in a cmake script) but I'd
> rather stick to an official version for my users up to now.
>
> To answer Eric and Droscy, I manage to use an external python script to
> uncompress (I use python already for other purpose) the downloaded file but
> I'd rather use the cmake -E tar command as soon as it is available in
> release flavour.
> David, have you any idea in which version it is expected to be? CMake 2.9?
>
> Nader
>
>
>
> Le 08/03/2010 17:49, David Cole a écrit :
>
> The "cmake -E tar ..." commands will decompress zip files, but only with
> CVS from the git master branch.
>
>  The functionality depends on libarchive which is in the git master
> branch, but is not yet in a CMake release.
>
>  If you need to use CMake 2.8 or earlier, you'll have to use some other
> external tool for zip file extraction. If you can use "CMake git master"
> then you can use cmake to do the decompression.
>
>
>  HTH,
> David
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 6:33 PM, AKHRES Nader <nader.akhres at laposte.net>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> is it possible to uncompress a zip file with cmake?
>> I use file(download...) to get a zip from an url, but I need to uncompress
>> the downloaded archive...
>>
>>
>> Nader
>>
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