Updating CMake requirement to 2.8.12 RC 1

Kevin Ottens ervin+bluesystems at kde.org
Wed Aug 21 09:24:53 UTC 2013


On Wednesday 21 August 2013 13:57:22 Rohan Garg wrote:
> > > so I disagree on raising the cmake requirement, at least before the
> > > final
> > > release is out.
> > 
> > Which cmake release do you use in Project Neon 5? Is it part of your
> > packaging effort or you assume whatever comes from the distro?
> 
> We currently build for 2 releases  last stable (Raring) and current dev
> (Saucy) , for Saucy we assume packages come from the distro, and for Raring
> we had to backport CMake 2.8.11.2 to the PPA. While KDE Frameworks is
> sandboxed separately from a stable KDE install, cmake is not sandboxed and
> overwrites the cmake package from the official distro repository., which is
> why I'm uneasy with thought of having a RC release of cmake in the PPA.

OK, makes sense to wait 2.8.12 final then.

I still think having the prep work in a temporary branch makes sense if it is 
short lived enough. It would then be merged back in frameworks when 2.8.12 
gets released.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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