[CMake] Enhanced version management for the command "project"

[Robert Maynard]

Hi,

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On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:33 PM, SF Markus Elfring
<elfring at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> CMake provides an interface for the specification of version information
> by the command "project".
> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.9/command/project.html
>
> Can it be extended a bit more?
>
> 1. How do you think about to preserve a software release tag there?
>
> 2. Software packages can often evolve and deviate from the specified version
>    numbers after the moment they were copied to an useful location.
>    Would you like to distinguish the extensions to a base version
>    by any additional data (like a commit hash or revision identifier)
>    from a content management system?
>
> Regards,
> Markus
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