On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Nils Gladitz <nilsglad...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 09/19/2014 03:19 PM, Richard Shaw wrote: > >> I'd like to hear others opinions, but what I've done is once one of my >> patches is accepted, as long as it applies cleanly to the current release >> (and since all I mess with are modules that's usually the case) then I >> just >> email the Fedora package maintainer and he applies it within Fedora. >> >> I personally rather dislike that distributions introduce behavior changes > since it might result in your project not only depending on a specific > version of CMake but also a specific variant as introduced by the > distribution you are working on. > > It also results in people submitting issues with vanilla CMake which might > be specific to distribution patches (e.g. [1]). I don't disagree in theory, but what do you do if you need the fix? One of the fixes I submitted fixed a problem with cross compiling that I'm not sure I could have easily worked around. I don't want to sit on my hands and wait for 3.1. I guess I could have copied the module into my project module folder and applied it locally, but that seems like a worse workaround than patching at the distro level. Thanks, Richard
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