I would like to bump the minimum version of CMake from the current 2.4.5 to 2.6.0. One motivation for moving to 2.6.x is our build system will be simplified by this move which will make it easier to do future changes to that build system. Another motivation is Fortran support is much better for 2.6.x. For example, we will be able to remove an annoying workaround in our Fortran source code that might confuse users who were "not in the know". (All occurrences of " use " in our Fortran source code comments have been replaced by "_use_" to avoid a bug in the 2.4.x fortran dependency parser.) A final motivation is I don't know of any developer who is actually still testing our build system for cmake-2.4.x. Because of that it is quite possible 2.4.x incompatibilities are creeping in, but instead of testing for those I would just prefer to keep our testing life as simple as possible and bump the minimum CMake version number instead.
I have wanted to bump the CMake minimum version long before this but delayed it because at the time it would have caused trouble for packagers on platforms without access to CMake-2.6.0. However, my feeling is this is no longer an issue; Debian testing has long since moved to cmake-2.6.0, and I presume that is also the case for other distros. I plan to make the move soon (say two days from now to be definite) if I don't hear any strong objections. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
