----- Original Message ----- > From: "Andrew Stitcher" <astitc...@redhat.com> > To: "proton" <proton@qpid.apache.org>, "Qpid Developers" > <d...@qpid.apache.org> > Sent: Monday, February 15, 2016 5:03:40 PM > Subject: Dropping proton-dump; Moving to newer minimum CMake version > > I've been doing some build tree maintenance in Proton and a couple of > issues have come up: > > 1. Is anyone using/have a reason to want to keep proton-dump?
Nope - get rid of it. > It's a > somewhat odd program that seems to have been a debugging tool left over > from the very earliest days of proton. > > It uses the internals of the proton-c library so it can't be simply > linked in with the qpid-proton library without exposing internal > symbols. > > For the present I've just linked it directly with the few c files that > provide the symbols it needs. > > 2. I'd like to move the minimum required CMake version to 2.8.7 - This > will allow me to tidy up a certain amount of the build system and also > provide a somewhat more featureful base version of CMake (currently we > support 2.6 onwards) > > As far as I can tell: > > Ubuntu12.04LTS: CMake 2.8.7 (version on regular TravisCI build) > RHEL6: CMake 2.8.12 > Debian Wheezy (7): CMake 2.8.9 > Fedora 22: CMake 3.4.1 > In general +1. What version does Windows use? > Version of CMake on appveyor currently seems to be at least 3.3.2 > > So I don't think there should be a probelm for anyone with this change. > > I'll wait for 3 days and if I don't hear anything from anyone, I'll > assume that no one wants to keep proton-dump and no one objects to > upping the minimum supported version of CMake. > > Thanks > > Andrew > > -- -K
