[CMake] CMakeModules repository at GitHub?

[David Cole]

CMake needs no new Find modules.

All projects should provide a "project config file .cmake script" 
readable by CMake's find_package, and installed in a location where 
CMake can find it, so that a CMake find module is completely 
unnecessary.

For other types of module improvements, I think becoming a CMake 
developer and participating in the active development of CMake itself 
is a much more useful thing than having a separate repository for stuff 
like this.

This is just my opinion, and I would love to hear what others think. 
But you'll be hard-pressed to convince me that a find module inside 
CMake itself is better than a config file installed with a project's 
install tree.


David C.


-----Original Message-----
From: Mateusz Loskot <mateusz at loskot.net>
To: cmake <cmake at cmake.org>
Sent: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 8:44 am
Subject: [CMake] CMakeModules repository at GitHub?


Hi,

To CMake maintainers,
what do you think about creating new repository at

https://github.com/Kitware/CMakeModules

as incubator for contributed CMake modules?

Here is outline of the process I'm thinking of:

1. I have developed new module for find_package
2. I submit pull request adding this new module to CMakeModules
- this is effectively act of request for comments and review
3. The module undergoes cycle of community-based review-improve-review
iterations
4. The module collects +1 votes
5. Once some sort of critical mass of +1 has been received,
the module is added to CMakeModules repo
6. The newly added module gets stamp "CMake Approved"

Next, users can report bugs, submit improvements through pull requests
or even issues marking module is out of date and requires maintenance.
GitHub is a tiptop venue for such thing.

IMO, CMake modules have suffered of the issues of fragmentation
and distribution, and it's time to apply "Stop Rolling Your Own" [1]
approach, and perhaps stream all those precious efforts into one sink.

[1] http://ithaca.arpinum.org/2013/01/02/git-prompt.html

Best regards,
--
Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net
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