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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst index c5970bb..0a313cd 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst @@ -20,11 +20,11 @@ for a policy, also avoiding the warning. Each policy can also be set to either ``NEW`` or ``OLD`` behavior explicitly on the command line with the :variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP<NNNN>` variable. -Note that policies are not reliable feature toggles. A policy should -almost never be set to ``OLD``, except to silence warnings in an otherwise -frozen or stable codebase, or temporarily as part of a larger migration -path. The ``OLD`` behavior of each policy is undesirable and will be -replaced with an error condition in a future release. +A policy is a deprecation mechanism and not a reliable feature toggle. +A policy should almost never be set to ``OLD``, except to silence warnings +in an otherwise frozen or stable codebase, or temporarily as part of a +larger migration path. The ``OLD`` behavior of each policy is undesirable +and will be replaced with an error condition in a future release. The :command:`cmake_minimum_required` command does more than report an error if a too-old version of CMake is used to build a project. It |