On 2007-07-26 18:35-0400 Brandon Van Every wrote:
On 7/26/07, Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 2007-07-26 13:55-0400 Brandon Van Every wrote:
> I think it is very important that any experimental releases have no
> effect on official CMake installations at all.
That's already been stated. I say again, you will not be affected by this
proposal at all.
That's not the point. The point is to define the exact mechanism by
which this is guaranteed. Just having people download "official"
CMakes or "experimental" CMakes at their whim won't guarantee it.
People will get confused about which CMake they're using. If the
world starts getting populated by CMakes of uncertain composition, I
am indeed affected.
Hmm. That (keeping users from being confused about which version they have)
is what release numbers are for. Thus, I am not at all convinced by your
argument.
I think the fundamental reason why you are attempting to be a change blocker
on my suggestion to make module releases is you don't feel comfortable with
the free software culture which encourages releases. I do feel extremely
comfortable with that culture (I have been living it for the last decade),
and that is why I am encouraging the CMake developers to start making
module releases.
Alan
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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).
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