Brad King wrote: > Also, no mention of this decision can be made in 3.3 because we are > already past the deadline for that release.
This isn't a 3.3 feature but a change to the documentation/release notes which is supposed to be ok? > On 06/08/2015 03:52 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> Given what you wrote about the impact of making CMP0011 required, I've >> instead documented all policies <= CMP0011 as deprecated for 3.3, making >> them fair-game for 3.4. > > Sorry, but that schedule is way too aggressive since we've never removed > policies before. There may be unforeseen problems with enforcing these > policy settings. I've changed the release notes to say 'some future release' instead. So, we can figure that out on a per-Policy basis. > There could still be code paths that never set the > minimum required version of CMake and therefore never set the policy > to NEW. Will that ever not be the case? > Any refactoring that depends on removing support for OLD behavior > needs to wait until after a release or two have removed it. We need > to retain the possibility to revert the removal if major problems > arise. I don't want the fallback to be "re-implement post-refactoring" > because typically this may be revealed during a release candidate > cycle. I think that's overkill for something like CMP0044 as I described in my other mail. It would be easily re-added. This seems like something to apply on a case-by-case basis. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
