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Updates for upcoming CMake 3.17

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Just watch the talks from CppCon17 to see examples of developers making the state of build systems the brunt of jokes.
This raises the question: Why?
Certainly there are no shortage of problems when building.
But I think that, in 2018, we have a very good solution to quite a few of those problems.
But I think that, in 2020, we have a very good solution to quite a few of those problems.
It's CMake. Not CMake 2.8 though; that was released before C++11 even existed!
Nor the horrible examples out there for CMake (even those posted on KitWare's own tutorials list).
I'm talking about Modern CMake. CMake 3.1+, maybe even CMake 3.16+!
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* [It's time to do CMake Right](https://pabloariasal.github.io/2018/02/19/its-time-to-do-cmake-right/): A nice set of best practices for Modern CMake projects.
* [The Ultimate Guide to Modern CMake](https://rix0r.nl/blog/2015/08/13/cmake-guide/): A slightly dated post with similar intent.
* [More Modern CMake](https://youtu.be/y7ndUhdQuU8): A great presentation from Meeting C++ 2018 that recommends CMake 3.12+. This talk makes calls CMake 3.0+ "Modern CMake" and CMake 3.12+ "More Modern CMake".
* [Oh No! More Modern CMake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9kSr5enrSk): The sequal to More Modern CMake.
* [Oh No! More Modern CMake](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9kSr5enrSk): The sequel to More Modern CMake.
* [toeb/moderncmake](https://github.com/toeb/moderncmake): A nice presentation and examples about CMake 3.5+, with intro to syntax through project organization
## Credits

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* Generator expressions work in more places, like build and install paths
* Find locations can now be explicitly controlled through new variables
## [CMake 3.17 (in progress)][CMake master] : More CUDA
* `CUDA_RUNTIME_LIBRARY` can finally be set to Shared!
* FindCUDAToolkit finally added
* CUDA has meta features like `cuda_std_03`, etc.
* ExternalProject can now disable recursive checkouts
* FindPython better integration with Conda
* DEPRECATION can be applied to targets
* CMake gained a rm command
* Several new environment variables
* foreach can now do `ZIP_LISTS` (multiple lists at a time)
[Releases]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/index.html
[CMake 3.0]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.0.html
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[CMake 3.14]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.14.html
[CMake 3.15]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.15.html
[CMake 3.16]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/release/3.16.html
[CMake master]: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/git-master/release/index.html
[fastercmake]: https://blog.kitware.com/improving-cmakes-runtime-performance/