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Adding a package information file as best practice

Open al-sabr opened this issue 5 years ago • 2 comments

While reading about best practices concerning CMake I've come across an article talking about package information. Since I'm deep down in the source code I realised that it was not there. I'm suggesting that maybe we could add this missing part in the project.

Article link: https://cliutils.gitlab.io/modern-cmake/chapters/install/packaging.html

al-sabr avatar Mar 31 '19 19:03 al-sabr

I believe that this is of limited use for CppMicroServices. C++ libraries and their development files are typically built manually by their users (configure && make or vcpkg) or uploaded to a central OS specific packaging system (rpm or deb packages). For the latter, we would need a mentor anyway.

Do you have a need for something else, like a zip or tgz package of the binary artifacts?

saschazelzer avatar May 01 '19 15:05 saschazelzer

Well this was for my quest to understand C++ and CMake. Personally I don't need anything specific, I just tought that this was a relevant point but if it is not necessary I believe your opinion has more weight and I would trust it.

al-sabr avatar May 02 '19 00:05 al-sabr