Because the installation will overwrite the older CMake version.
2010/9/21 Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]>
> Hello,
>
> I don't understand how it would be problematic. CMake 2.8 would only
> be used to build Wt. From that moment on, you can use CMake 2.4 to
> build your project if you like.
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:09 AM, omer katz <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Downloading CMake 2.8 is problematic for projects that depend on older
> > versions.
> >
> > 2010/9/20 Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Koen Deforche <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> > Hey Pau,
> >> >
> >> > 2010/9/19 Pau Garcia i Quiles <[email protected]>:
> >> > We realize something like this would even be more useful for
> Windows,
> >> > and at this point we would not even mind having another solution
> >> > specifically for Windows. At the same time I am not sure how practical
> >> > CMake would be for a cross-platform easy-installer solution since
> >> > relying on CMake 2.8 kind of defeats the purpose of winst for UNIX
> >> > platforms: to checkout Wt on non-cutting edge OS/environments.
> >> > Currently, Wt still builds fine with CMake 2.4.
> >>
> >> I see. That should not be a problem. It should be possible to have a
> >> CMakeLists.txt with FILE( DOWNLOAD ... ) and ExternalProject_Add to
> >> replace winst. The only thing you need is something to bootstrap it
> >> for people using CMake < 2.8.
> >>
> >> My proposal: have a (very small) .sh for Unix users and a .bat for
> >> Windows users which FTP's to the CMake FTP server and downloads CMake
> >> 2.8, then FTP's to webtoolkit.eu and downloads that CMakeLists.txt. On
> >> Windows it is possible to automate the FTP download like this:
> >>
> >> -->8----------------------------------------------
> >> echo "Downloading WGet"
> >> echo "open ftp.mirrorservice.org
> >> anonymous
> >> pass anonymous
> >> binary
> >> get
> >> /sites/
> download.sourceforge.net/pub/sourceforge/m/project/mi/mingw/mingwPORT/Current%20Releases/wget-1.9.1-mingwPORT.tar.bz2
> >> bye
> >> " > mingw32.ftp
> >> ftp -s:mingw32.ftp
> >> -->8----------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Cut and paste that to a .bat and that'll download wget. The FTP server
> >> for CMake is ftp://www.cmake.org/pub/cmake (down now).
> >>
> >> On Unix there are so many different FTP clients I think assuming wget
> >> is available (or directly requiring it) would be the safest bet. You
> >> can then download a static, precompiled CMake binary from cmake.org
> >> (or even compile from source :-)
> >>
> >> What do you think?
>
> --
> Pau Garcia i Quiles
> http://www.elpauer.org
> (Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)
>
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