On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:12:40PM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote: > On 2008-05-06 20:41-0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> 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. > > > > > > Here's my perspective from the Fedora side of things (I package both cmake > > and plplot for Fedora). cmake 2.6.0 will be in F10. F9 is basically > > being built today and has 2.4.8. I don't think 2.6.0 will be pushed to F9 > > anytime soon. Fedora has a 6 month release cycle, so I would hope for > > cmake 2.4.8 support for another 6 months until F10 is released and people > > can really bang on it. But we can live with whatever you decide to do. > > Because F9 is to be released shortly, it sounds like you will start the F10 > packaging effort for CMake-2.6.0 quite soon. But as soon as that is done, > then I assume you should have no problems packaging a version of PLplot that > build-depends on CMake-2.6.0 for F10. Is that a correct assumption? > > Similarly, the cmake 2.6.0 packaging effort is already underway in Debian > experimental, and Andrew and Rafael would have to wait until that package > got promoted to Debian unstable before they could start packaging a PLplot > version that build-depends on CMake 2.6.0. > > I feel strongly that packaging is a really important way to promote PLplot > so I don't want to make life difficult for the Plplot packagers. Therefore, > I would be happy to hold off making the CMake version bump until you were > satisfied with the cmake-2.6.0 packaging for the pre-release version of F10, > and cmake-2.6.0 got promoted to Debian unstable. I suspect both those > events will occur substantially before 6 months from now, but we will see.
Waiting until cmake 2.6.0 is available is a must before upgrading the debian packages. We tend to package the current release rather than svn so it wouldn't immediate break the packages - it would just mean we couldn't upgrade to a new release until cmake 2.6.0 was available. I think it is probably important to provide a crossover anyway. Cmake 2.6.0 is new and may well not be available packaged on all platforms for a little while. We want to make life as simple as possible for those trying plplot. In the long term dropping support for 2.4.x seems the way to go. I just don't think the time is quite yet. Andrew wh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
