On Friday 15 August 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > On 15.08.08 00:13:49, Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Thursday 07 August 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > > On 07.08.08 22:11:11, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > > > Andreas Pakulat wrote: > > > > >This has a problem, I can't depend on KDE 4.2.0 until its released > > > > > and hence modules in trunk/ cannot have a dependency on kdelibs > > > > > from trunk/ > > > > > > > > > >For example kdevplatform now has a hard dependency on kdelibs from > > > > >trunk/, so what I need is require KDE >= 4.1.60 (current version > > > > > used in trunk/) not 4.2.0 as that doesn't exist yet and 4.1.0 > > > > > doesn't work anymore. > > > > > > > > Right, sorry. I hadn't thought of pre-releases. > > > > > > Thanks for doing the logic-thinking for me :) Patch attached, it uses a > > > negation of your pseudo-code to avoid having to create new variables. > > > > > > Andreas > > > > Looks good from the technical side. > > Still there is one thing: > > right now the way to specify the required KDE version is to set the > > KDE_MIN_VERSION variable before calling find_package(KDE4). > > > > This patch now adds a second way how to specify the required version. > > Pro: > > -this is how find_package() now supports specifying the minimum version > > number, i.e. in some way the officially recommended way > > Another pro is that we don't have to take care of moving a whole block > (variable-setting+find_package) when reorganizing a module's > CMakeLists.txt. > > > Con: > > -with the patch there are now two ways how to do the same thing (and the > > old way has to stay, in order to stay source compatible) > > Well, while I agree its better to leave it in, the variable isn't > documented and hence is IMHO an internal variable -
Ooops, this is a bug, this variable was/is intended to be public. > > -several other modules also support FOO_MIN_VERSION or similar variables, > > so using such a variable is currently kind of de-facto standard for > > specifying the minimum version. > > Well, I think those modules support a version variable only because > there was no other way until now. If we'd always just stay with what we > have we'd never make any progress at all :) So feel free to commit. Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
