[CMake] Request for added script intelligence

[J Decker]

Then it should be default in debug build not copy the release libraries
which are unreferenced anyway.
'sides that... I'm only asking for the leading intelligence before the
include, and not including the INSTALL line.
I'm not asking to change having to add a INSTALL rule... just having a
better default list of what should be copied.

On Mon, Sep 8, 2014 at 5:40 PM, David Cole <dlrdave at aol.com> wrote:

> I don't think that's a good idea.
>
> The Debug libraries are supposed to be non-redistributable. (At least that
> used to be true... is it still true?) To Debug a VS-built project, you have
> to run it on a machine with VS installed, so there's not a compelling need
> to "install" the debug libraries anyway.
>
> The capability is in there if you *must* have an install tree with Debug
> libraries in it for some reason, but it's not supposed to be the norm, and
> I don't think we should make it easy to do.
>
> If you're going to go against the license terms, you should have to do it
> explicitly in your own code... not as a side effect of a default behavior
> that CMake provides.
>
>
> Just my opinion,
> David C.
>
>
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