summaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Help
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorBen Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>2016-03-29 14:25:01 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2016-03-31 12:37:12 (GMT)
commit1ba9b535478a2a73100a6b0e9bf01983b4774cb8 (patch)
tree56a5eb3a95e10b2d7e82b054caf7de63daadbaa4 /Help
parent90f24f016e93d18f6a244b39fd21c68355bdbe48 (diff)
downloadCMake-1ba9b535478a2a73100a6b0e9bf01983b4774cb8.zip
CMake-1ba9b535478a2a73100a6b0e9bf01983b4774cb8.tar.gz
CMake-1ba9b535478a2a73100a6b0e9bf01983b4774cb8.tar.bz2
ExternalProject: add support for just downloading a file
Some projects only ship self-extracting installers rather than compressed archives. Add a flag so that these files may be used in ExternalProject.
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
-rw-r--r--Help/release/dev/external-project-no-extract.rst6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/external-project-no-extract.rst b/Help/release/dev/external-project-no-extract.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b3293cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/external-project-no-extract.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+external-project-no-extract
+---------------------------
+
+* The :module:`ExternalProject` module leared the ``DOWNLOAD_NO_EXTRACT 1``
+ argument to skip extracting the file that is downloaded (e.g., for
+ self-extracting shell installers or ``.msi`` files).