On Monday 29 April 2013, Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Monday 29 April 2013 18:13:59 Alexander Neundorf wrote: > > On Monday 29 April 2013, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > > hi ... > > > > > > today i am unable to work on plasma-frameworks. this is because i am > > > currently unable to compile the frameworks branch of kdelibs. in turn, > > > this is because i do not have a recent enough version of cmake. > > > > > > the cmake version required is 2.8.10.20130411. this isn't even a > > > release version of cmake, but a dated snapshot! i am left with the > > > option of moving to cmake from git (something i really would like to > > > avoid) or not working on plasma-frameworks (which is not really an > > > option for me). > > > > > > i am sure there was a good reason to move to this new version of cmake. > > > i am also sure that requiring devel versions of build tools to work on > > > frameworks limits the people who can and will work on it. > > > > > > would it be possible for someone who feels reponsible for frameworks 5 > > > to institute some more developer-friendly requirements here? > > > > I am all for requiring only released versions of cmake. > > Or at least announcing it when an update is required. > > But it seemed to be the majority opinion that this is not necessary in > > kf5. > > Well it's been necessary at some point because you needed to make fast > paced changes. I didn't expect that habit to stick though. When is the > next release of cmake planned? If we could stick to that one for a while > that would be nice. > > Once it's released we should not depend on unreleased cmake version anymore > IMO.
cmake 2.8.11 is about to be released very soon, maybe two weeks or so. If I followed Stephens work correctly currently we can't go back to 2.8.10, right ? Alex _______________________________________________ Kde-frameworks-devel mailing list Kde-frameworks-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-frameworks-devel
