[CMake] is it possible to download CMake modules at configure time?

[radovan bast]

dear Jean-Christophe,

indeed the approach you demostrated works for me!
this is exactly what i needed.
thank you again!

(i am sorry for coming back to you so late;
was too busy with other things)

best regards,
   radovan


On Sat, 13 Apr 2013 12:24:02 +0200, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin  
<jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:

> Hi Radovan,
> Did you manage to make use and/or generalize the code I pointed you?
> Thanks
> Jc
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile device
> On Apr 6, 2013 10:29 AM, "radovan bast" <radovan at bast.fr> wrote:
>
>> dear Jean-Christophe,
>> wonderful! thank you very much.
>> i will test it out.
>> best regards,
>>   radovan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 05 Apr 2013 18:13:52 +0200, Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <
>> jchris.fillionr at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Hi Radovan,
>>>
>>> This is possible. You could look at the approach we consider in CTK.
>>> See
>>> https://github.com/commontk/**CTK/compare/**
>>> 00694c9f8a0da6ee28fb079902e6a8**c3ec428058...**
>>> 891aa5443b110cc7e6aa0ec1339aad**4b2c83ef9d<https://github.com/commontk/CTK/compare/00694c9f8a0da6ee28fb079902e6a8c3ec428058...891aa5443b110cc7e6aa0ec1339aad4b2c83ef9d>
>>>
>>> Hth
>>> Jc
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:03 PM, radovan bast <
>>> radovan.bast at irsamc.ups-tlse.**fr <radovan.bast at irsamc.ups-tlse.fr>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>  dear CMake developers and users,
>>>>
>>>> first of all, a big thanks for the CMake developers
>>>> for a great product! we like CMake a lot.
>>>>
>>>> we are extensively using CMake external project support
>>>> in combination with Git submodules in a number of larger
>>>> projects and that works nicely.
>>>>
>>>> my question is: could i do something similar with CMake
>>>> modules? is it possible to start with a minimal core
>>>> CMakeLists.txt which would fetch other CMake modules from an
>>>> external public (Git) repository
>>>> and use them to configure the project?
>>>>
>>>> the motivation for this is that we have several projects
>>>> with rather complex CMake infrastructures. the projects
>>>> are independent, live on different repositories, but the
>>>> CMake infrastructures are to a large extent overlapping.
>>>> currently we synchronize the CMake code between these projects
>>>> manually but this is not great and there is the risk that
>>>> the codes will diverge, that wheels will be reinvented,
>>>> and that improvements are not communicated between the projects.
>>>> this could be avoided if the CMake code was not explicitly
>>>> present but fetched from a repository which would also
>>>> enforce (or encourage) communicating all improvements
>>>> to the same place. everything that is generic and not project
>>>> specific would go into that external repo, only project specific
>>>> things would be kept in the minimal core CMakeLists.txt.
>>>>
>>>> i will appreciate any pointers and suggestions
>>>> on how i could implement such a scheme.
>>>>
>>>> thanks and best regards,
>>>>   radovan
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