Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread J. Leslie Turriff
On Monday 13 October 2014 10:22:11 David Ashley wrote: > These are not automation issues. These are pure build issues. > > First, there is a problem with CMake. You can not just ask your > distribution to install CMake and be ready to go. The version of CMake > that gets installed may be too old.

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread Rick McGuire
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 11:29 AM, René Jansen wrote: > Well, Rick, I think that is a slight overreaction to my remarks. I did not > ask to stop moving forward, just to do so in a fashion that causes less > fragmentation. > If namespaces break the linkage editor, the feature might be 15 years old,

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread René Jansen
Well, Rick, I think that is a slight overreaction to my remarks. I did not ask to stop moving forward, just to do so in a fashion that causes less fragmentation. If namespaces break the linkage editor, the feature might be 15 years old, but it is probably not used frequently enough to get the ne

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread David Ashley
These are not automation issues. These are pure build issues. First, there is a problem with CMake. You can not just ask your distribution to install CMake and be ready to go. The version of CMake that gets installed may be too old. That means that now you have to remove the version of CMake you j

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread Rick McGuire
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 10:45 AM, René Jansen wrote: > David, > > I appreciate the heads up, but I am wondering if this change does not come > too soon. I know it is sometimes good to make a clean break, and a > programming language is not a museum of older tools and architectures. > Still, I am

Re: [Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-13 Thread René Jansen
David, I appreciate the heads up, but I am wondering if this change does not come too soon. I know it is sometimes good to make a clean break, and a programming language is not a museum of older tools and architectures. Still, I am wondering if the subgoals - wanting to use modern building tool

[Oorexx-devel] ooRexx 5.0.0 Support For Older Operating Systems

2014-10-10 Thread David Ashley
All - Please read all of this note as this could impact you. For the last few days I have been trying to get the 5.0.0 version of ooRexx to build on my older VMs on the Build Machine. I keep running into one of the following problems. 1. We use a lot of the newer features in CMake and these olde