I'd like to make a pitch for maintaining a lower general cmake minimum
until
more compelling bug fixes or features are introduced.
I have over 6 platforms standardized on cmake 3.3.2.
Maybe the new version requirement should be restricted to those platforms
where they are needed? And an update message issued for those that are
not required to update? (i.e. "cmake 3.6.2 looks really spiffy; try it and
avoid
seeing this annoying message!")
Greg
On Sat, Feb 6, 2016 at 9:53 PM, Alan W. Irwin <ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca>
wrote:
> On 2015-12-10 11:17-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>
> > On 2015-12-10 10:54-0000 Phil Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Alan
> >> This is just a note about cmake version bumping. You have been
> >> increasing the required CMake version lately, which I generally have
> >> no problem with, however CMake 3.4.1 seems to have a major issue on
> >> Windows, in that it cannot seem to find the latest visual studio
> >> compiler (which happens to be the version I am using). I reported a
> >> bug and it has been marked as a duplicate of another bug reported
> >> early November (https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15831). Therefore
> >> can I ask that until this bug is fixed we do not bump up any further.
> >
> > Agreed.
>
> Hi Phil:
>
> I notice at <https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15831> that this bug
> has been marked as fixed for 3.4.2, and one other key Windows fix was
> recently made for 3.4.3. So that appears to satisfy the request
> you made above.
>
> Therefore (as of commit 640fd5c) I bumped the minimum CMake version to
> 3.4.3 for all PLplot platforms (other than Linux and Cygwin where will
> still use 3.0.2 as the minimum version). Please see the commit
> message for all the successful tests I did of CMake-3.4.3 on Linux.
>
> However, if you discover any regression of CMake-3.4.3 compared to
> CMake-3.3.2 (the previous minimum version) let me know, and I will
> either adjust our build system to be more in tune with 3.4.3 or else
> revert the changes in commit 640fd5c until we can figure out what is
> wrong for the 3.4.3 case.
>
> Note, the next release of CMake after 3.4.3 is going to be 3.5.0. A
> release candidate (3.5.0-rc1) has been distributed for that, but I
> haven't bothered to try it since it appears there are a whole host of
> problems for that release candidate. But since 3.4.3 was such a
> success for me, and to help out the CMake developers, I am going to
> try one of the later release candidates for 3.5.0 just to investigate
> whether there are any showstopper CMake-3.5.0-rc? bugs found by the
> PLplot build to report to the CMake developers.
>
> Alan
> __________________________
> Alan W. Irwin
>
> Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
> University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
>
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> 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).
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