> -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Conway [mailto:acon...@redhat.com] > > Steve Huston wrote: > >>> The dates for each phase would be as follows: > >>> > >>> End of Development : 2009-03-02 > >>> End of Feature Freeze : 2009-03-16 > >>> Release : 2009-03-27 > >>> > >> This was the last set of dates Martin had put up for 0.5 > release. I > >> suspect that > >> it is still worth putting a 0.5 as quite a lot of fixes have > >> been made > >> since M4. > >> > >> Are we still on for freeze on Monday? > >> Feature Freeze March 02nd > >> RC March 23rd (and branch trunk) > > > > I'd like to get the new build scheme in for M5, based on cmake - I'm > > not sure I'll have a first cut in by Monday, but it would > be next week > > sometime. I think that in order for that to be in M5, though, we'll > > need some group discussion after getting a chance to test drive it a > > bit. > > > > Thoughts? > > > I'm keen to get it in but it will need some advance warning > so people can try it in different environments. There may be some > teething problems and there are > significant downstream build systems that will be affected.
Right, good points. We'll take another look at this when the trunk thaws out again. > Ideally we want it to have the same "API" (./bootstrap; ./configure > --with-same-options; make), > where bootstrap and configure are wrappers to the new system. The cmake system generates Makefiles (and Visual Studio projects, etc.) from which a regular 'make' is done. Think of cmake replacing bootstrap and configure. There are similar ways to specify options and such, and it ends up a pretty direct and simple few commands, even though they're cmake and make instead of bootstrap, configure, and make. We're also keeping tabs on what other projects are doing around cmake now that the KDE project recently switched to cmake. There's some best practices being developed; one is at Fedora dealing with building rpms: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/cmake -Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:dev-subscr...@qpid.apache.org
