<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:29 AM, David Cole <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.cole@kitware.com" target="_blank">david.cole@kitware.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Regarding the loop swapping you ask about in your original post:</div><div><br></div>I know we've discussed swapping those loops before on this list, quite to exhaustion.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'm sorry to read that... now that I raised the topic again.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>The bottom line is: we will not be changing those loops so as to preserve existing behavior. If we do add code to swap those loops, then it would have to be conditionally activated, only in response to people requesting it by explicitly setting a variable (or some equivalent mechanism).</div>
</blockquote><div><br></div><div>That sound perfectly fine to me. In fact, the fact that the CMake team is doing a great job at not breaking existing build systems when shipping new versions is one of the reasons why I use CMake.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I don't know how far back this discussion was, but it's in the archives. (If anybody can provide a pointer to the exact thread, that would be great...)<br>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Was a consensus reached, back then?</div><div><br></div><div>I would very much like to see such an addition to CMake.</div><div><br></div><div>As proposed in my previous email, an additional "<span style>FIRST"</span> value to the <span style>CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH_MODE_{</span><span style>PROGRAM,INCLUDE,LIBRARY} {ONLY,NEVER,BOTH} set would perfectly fit the bill, in my case.</span></div>
<div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>Would that be hard to do?</span></div><div><span style><br></span></div><div><span style>Would it be considered as a welcome addition?</span></div><div><span style><br></span></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Best,</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Nicolas</font></div></div>