On 03/28/2017 04:07 AM, Jean-Michaël Celerier wrote: > I remember asking for the same thing a few weeks ago on IRC because of > a small behaviour change in cmake 3.8.0 rc2 that I wanted to put behind > an if(version_less).
For reference, this was also proposed in issue 16656 [1]. The problem is that 3.8.0-rc1 must not compare as less than 3.8.0 or the release candidate will not satisfy `cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.8.0)`. We want the release candidates to behave for projects as if they were the final release in order to fully test them as such. Users running a release candidate should always be running the latest candidate. Once the final release for a given version of CMake is out, none of its corresponding release candidates should be used anymore. Projects should write their code under this assumption. If a project has trouble with a specific release candidate then it can use `if(MATCHES)` or another string-based approach to reject that specific release candidate version, just as it might do if there were a problem with a final release version of CMake. -Brad [1] https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16656 -- 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
