2011/3/5 Tim Gallagher <[email protected]>: > It's not an option to do a global install. These are US government owned > clusters. I asked them if they could install it and they won't for awhile -- > they tend to remain a few versions back on everything until they run > extensive tests on new versions.
Conservative versioning is usually a safe approach but I thought that thanks to the cray "module" system one could have several versions installed. At the time I was using Cray machines (10+ year ago :-]) the default "active" software were lagging 1 or 2 versions behind just with the same reason as yours, however a user could "module switch <don't remember the syntax>" in order to change default version to something more bleeding edge "at his own risk". The bleeding edge software were globally installed but they were not the default active version. The risk for the average user was minimal because he had to explicitely switch version. At that time the sys. admin. team was simply refusing to answer support request for "bleeding edge" version, however one could use it. I thought this small history may be inspiring for your case. That said if you have no choice then each user should use a locally install CMake, it's easy to do. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.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
