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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-03-21 12:51:35 (GMT)
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Help: Clarify policy CMP0082 documentation
The policy documentation added by commit fc8955e889 (add_subdirectory: Run subdirectory install rules in correct order, 2018-10-02, v3.14.0-rc1~565^2~1) left out our usual sentence about the policy providing compatibility.
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@@ -6,9 +6,11 @@ those in caller.
CMake 3.13 and lower ran the install rules from :command:`add_subdirectory`
after all other install rules, even if :command:`add_subdirectory` was called
-before the other install rules. CMake 3.14 and later interleaves these
-:command:`add_subdirectory` install rules with the others so that they are
-run in the order they are declared.
+before the other install rules. CMake 3.14 and above prefer to interleave
+these :command:`add_subdirectory` install rules with the others so that
+they are run in the order they are declared. This policy provides
+compatibility for projects that have not been updated to expect the
+new behavior.
The ``OLD`` behavior for this policy is to run the install rules from
:command:`add_subdirectory` after the other install rules. The ``NEW``