[CMake] Inconsistent CTest/CMake variable naming

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Sun Jun 22 17:34:27 EDT 2008


On Friday 20 June 2008, Maik Beckmann wrote:
> Am Freitag 20 Juni 2008 14:49:37 schrieb David Cole:
> > Regardless of the answer to your original question, these variable names
> > simply cannot be changed now.
>
> Sure!
>
> > There are too many scripts that run  dashboards that set them as is. The
> > best we could do would be to invent duplicate variable names that are
> > consistent, but then we'd have duplicates and people would want to know
> > which one they should prefer.....
> >
> > It's a can of worms you're asking about..... :-)
>
> I prefer to pick just a few worm at time than :)
>
> XXX_BINARY_DIR/XXX_SOURCE_DIR is something 99% of the cmake users know. 
> IMHO this justifies adding the clutter of making CTEST_XXX_DIR an alias for
> CTEST_XXX_DIRECTORY.

I agree with Maik here.

Alex


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