Alan, I'm still using cmake 2.4 at home so I can confirm that everything currently still works with a pretty complete build. I've not yet upgraded to the latest version of ubuntu which does contain cmake 2.6. This is principally because the kde support in the latest version is a little cutting edge. Having said that I will probably get round to it at some time, so don't hold things up for me. Is maintaining compatibility (for now) really such a big deal? Many big users don't upgrade that often.
Andrew On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 07:36:48PM -0800, Alan Irwin wrote: > 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
