Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-30 Thread Brad King
On 10/29/2012 10:17 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: if(NOT CMAKE_PLATFORM_INFO_DIR) set(CMAKE_PLATFORM_INFO_DIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}${CMAKE_FILES_DIRECTORY}) endif() to handle the case of versions of CMake prior to 2.8.10. (You covered this OK, but I believe you should also be more

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-30 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-30 08:30-0400 Brad King wrote: In sum, I was completely surprised by this backwards-incompatible change for CMake-2.8.10, but if you follow my suggestions about announcing the change and documenting what has to be done to keep external language support working, that element of

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-30 Thread Brad King
On 10/30/2012 01:43 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Umm, it's not completely internal. Modules/CMakeAddNewLanguage.txt does document in a very terse way what has to be done to add a new language externally. Basically what you are saying is it's our current policy, and it sounds like your group

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-30 Thread Bill Hoffman
On 10/30/2012 2:06 PM, Brad King wrote: Basically what you are saying is it's our current policy, and it sounds like your group has made the decision about what that current policy is going to be. Nevertheless, I still think you should advertise this limitation on your backwards compatibility

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-29 Thread David Cole
On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 4:25 AM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2012-10-24 16:39-0400 David Cole wrote: The CMake 2.8.10 release candidate stream continues! This is the last RC unless somebody finds a critical, must-fix issue with it. As you know I have been distracted by

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-29 13:16-0400 David Cole wrote: The bottom line is: we changed where the output files of an enable_language call go to make them exact-version-of-CMake-specific. Anybody who was depending on the location of those files needs to update their own code accordingly. I think the number of

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-29 Thread David Cole
On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Alan W. Irwin ir...@beluga.phys.uvic.ca wrote: On 2012-10-29 13:16-0400 David Cole wrote: The bottom line is: we changed where the output files of an enable_language call go to make them exact-version-of-CMake-specific. Anybody who was depending on the

Re: [cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-29 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-29 17:36-0400 David Cole wrote: The release is delayed already... I'm not going to start building the final release until after I hear back from you. There are still several discussions going on around this issue. So do let me know your results. OK. I have tested results for

[cmake-developers] Regression in language support infrastructure for CMake 2.8.10-rc3

2012-10-27 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2012-10-24 16:39-0400 David Cole wrote: The CMake 2.8.10 release candidate stream continues! This is the last RC unless somebody finds a critical, must-fix issue with it. As you know I have been distracted by CMake on Wine issues for some time, and that is probably going to continue for a