All, I'm currently working on a fairly large project that requires a number of external tools be installed. I've been playing with the idea of having CMake download and install these packages prior to building the project. I have something that works using a combination of custom modules and external projects, but I'm not quite satisfied.
After trolling through the find_package documentation, I'm tempted to write a module that will download and install a CPack package hosted on an HTTP server. This is somewhat similar to the approach that neovim has taken, however I'd like to use the user package registry rather than CMAKE_CURRENT_BUILD_DIR; having some persistence would make life a bit better with multiple clones. I'm surprised that CMake doesn't have support for something like this already - does this ring a bell to anyone? If not, I'm tempted to put together an ExternalPackage module that would encapsulate this behavior, which should dovetail nicely with find_package and friends. Thoughts? Steve
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