[CMake] Status of "Modern" linking and modules?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am 2017-06-15 10:19, schrieb Nicholas Devenish:
> I've been finding the 'modern' approaches of imported targets as used
> by e.g. Boost and some other modules much better - being able to
> specify all dependencies in a single target_link_libraries instead of
> hauling around a whole load of required variables for each dependency.
> 
> However, only very few of the modules seem to have been altered to use
> this paradigm - and some I'd have assumed were popular
> (PythonInterp/PythonLibs - the libs themselves a dependency for
> Boost::python) certainly aren't.
> 
> Is it just that nobody has gone over many of the existing packages, or
> is there some reason this approach has been abandoned? This seems to
> have been around for a couple of years, so I'd have expected more to
> have of the module library converted.

It's just the former: patches welcome.

Greetings,

Eike