On 2011-10-21 21:01-0600 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > On Friday, October 21, 2011 at 19:43:14 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > > Hi Maurice: > > > > On 2011-10-21 18:32-0600 Maurice LeBrun wrote: > > > > > On Friday, October 21, 2011 at 10:43:56 (-0700) Alan W. Irwin writes: > > > > If I don't hear any strong objections to changing the minimum version > > > > of CMake to 2.8.6 for Windows and 2.8.2 for all other platforms, I > > > > plan to make this important change to our build system early next week > > > > (probably Monday). > > > > > > Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) is using 2.8.1, is there a good reason not to make > > > this the > > > minimum? > > > > The usual x.x.0 and x.x.1 troubles. For example, it took a while for > > ... > > OK, good points, I'm fine with your proposal.
I have now (revision 12000) gone ahead with a modified version of this proposed change after checking (by just running ctest) that cmake-2.8.6 worked well for Linux. Please follow up by downloading cmake-2.8.6 for yourselves and checking that it works well on all platforms accessible to you. In the event, I decided to make the minimum CMake version 2.8.2 for Linux and 2.8.6 for all other platforms. That is a significant difference (2.8.6 rather than 2.8.2) than what I proposed before for the Mac OS X platform. My assumption is that most OS X users will need to download a version of CMake from cmake.org in any case so we should demand they download the latest version available now. However, if Jerry and Werner (our two developers with access to OS X) are aware of a good system version of cmake on that platform whose version is 2.8.2 or later (for the reasons I mentioned to Maurice) but less than 2.8.6, then I would be willing to adopt that version as our minimum version on that platform to make it a little easier for our OS X users to build PLplot. 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); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); 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 __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
