[CMake] Feature request: expose curl to cmake -E

[Greg Marr]

iosif neitzke wrote:
>On Fri, Dec 18, 2015 at 2:18 PM, Jakob van Bethlehem <jsvanbethlehem at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Depending on what you precisely wish to achieve, maybe file(DOWNLOAD) already fits your needs?
>> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/command/file.html
>
>It does, generally, in the way that ExternalProject also fits, but I think would require writing wrapper >scripts.  My specific use case was something like:
>
>cmake -E curl http://jenkins/buildA/artifacts/stuff.tar
>cmake -E tar xzf stuff.tar
>cmake -Hstuff/path/to/CMakeLists/ -Bbuild_dir cmake --build build_dir
>
>I thought 'curl' is sort of at the level of 'tar', in being a useful tool that
>could be exposed fairly easily in a cmake portable command.
>Those portable commands are another thing that CMake offers that makes working
>on Windows a little easier, if you don't already have Cygwin or the like.

curl is already portable.  Are you just trying to avoid installing curl?