Cmake 2.6.0 was released today. It clears up a number of issues with 2.4.x (huge improvements in Fortran support, for example), provides neat new features (scope reduction), and has a new generation of more powerful modules for finding system components. CMake-2.6.0 appears to work well with PLplot svn trunk (revision 8393) on my Debian testing system (build, install, ctest, and install-tree example build and test).
Currently we have a number of places in our build system where we do things differently for CMake 2.4.x versus 2.6.x. Eventually, I would like to drop all the 2.4.x logic (for example, all the Fortran workarounds for the CMake 2.4.x fortran bugs) and set a CMake minimum version of 2.6.0 to simplify our build system logic, increase its maintainability, and make it easier to access some of the neat features that are now available with 2.6.0. Please let me know if this proposed change will have any bad effects for your platform. IOW, please test PLplot builds for CMake 2.6.0 and report back good/bad results. Please also comment on the time scale for this change. For example, we could do it immediately after your platform tests have been completed successfully for 2.6.0 or we could wait until just after the next development release of PLplot, but I wouldn't want to delay the change too long because I would like this change in place for at least one development release before our next stable release. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin 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). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
