Updating CMake requirement to 2.8.12 RC 1

[Martin Graesslin]

On Wednesday 21 August 2013 08:40:43 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Tuesday 20 August 2013 23:23:30 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 20 August 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > > Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > please wait with updating the required version until 2.8.12 final is
> > > > out.
> > > > There have been complaints about requiring unreleased versions of
> > > > cmake,
> > > > e.g. by Aaron.
> > > 
> > > The objections from Aaron were based partly on misunderstanding.
> > > 
> > >  
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.frameworks/2339/focus=2357
> > > 
> > > For example, he complained about a 'dated snapshot', which I fixed in
> > > kdelibs.git with commit f1e6b8e67fe5071 (Add a better error message
> > > about
> > > the required CMake version., 2013-04-30).
> > > 
> > >  https://projects.kde.org/projects/kde/kdelibs/repository/revisions/f1e6
> > >  b8
> > >  e
> > > 
> > > 67fe5071a19e9ad5b8ed8ee93fa26fc4c/diff/CMakeLists.txt
> > > 
> > > Additionally, I my recommendation is not to bump the required version
> > > with
> > > each release candidate made available, only this first one, and then the
> > > final.
> 
> The crux of the issue is:
> Is there anyone building kdelibs-frameworks and/or plasma-framework without
> using the kdesrc-build based procedure described on the wiki?
> http://community.kde.org/Frameworks/Building
> 
> Because the proposed setup pulls cmake master anyway. So our contributor
> base will soon meet the requirements as they trigger their next build...
> It's much more automatic than the last time in that regard, we put the
> effort in that.
Just to give some feedback: I did use the building steps as outlined on the 
wiki to setup the build directories and install directory. But since then I'm 
only running make from either terminal or kdevelop. This means although I have 
the self-compiled cmake somewhere, I'm not using it. If we depend on cmake 
master at least my current setup would fail requiring me to reconfigure each of 
my kdevelop projects to use the right cmake.

Given that it's already lots of work to keep up with the constant breakage due 
to changes in frameworks the outlook of also having breakage in cmake is 
nothing I look forward to.

Cheers
Martin
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