Philip Lowman wrote: > On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 4:31 PM, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote: >> Bill Hoffman wrote: >>> Eric Noulard wrote: >>> >>>> That's true, may be the site could indicate that the doc is for latest >>>> 2.6.x serie. >>>> However the most trustfull way to check the doc of your current cmake >>>> version is the command line. >>>> >>>> cmake --help-command if >>>> >>>> should give you the doc for the cmake version you are using. >>>> >>>> if you want html you can use: >>>> >>>> cmake --help-html > cmake-doc.html >>>> >>>> then browse the cmake-doc.html file. >>> Or cmake --version. >> Yes, all this is true and I've managed to find a solution myself quite >> easily, but I've posted as from position of an average >> (read, rather lazy) user who preferes pretty website to read doc >> than dark console :-) > > Also, it might not be a bad idea to mention the version number within > the documentation when features are added, especially if features are > going to be added during a patch release. > > The same should probably be true of new find modules.
Yes, I also think it would be a good idea, though may be a hassle for maintainers. An alternative option would be to link to ChangeLog [1] in first words of the documentation and emphasise features may be added between patch releases. For instance, one of entries for 2.6.2 RC4 says: - Add VERSION compare to if command [1] http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.6/CMakeChangeLog-2.6.4 Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net Charter Member of OSGeo, http://osgeo.org _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
