[PATCH] Re: KDE 4.6.0: go or no go?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Jan 20 21:26:38 CET 2011


On Thursday 20 January 2011, Ian Monroe wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 14:05, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Thursday 20 January 2011, Ian Monroe wrote:
...
> >> Delaying 4.6.0 at this point due to a cmake that barely any distros
> >> are using seems quite foolish to me (assuming it is an issue).
> >
> > No, this is not foolish.
> > All distros will use cmake >= 2.8.4 in the future.
>
> There aren't too many distros in the future that will be building
> 4.6.0. They will be building 4.6.1 and 4.6.2. That was my point.
>
> If a distro with an aggressive cmake-upgrade policy does hit the
> problem they can patch it at that point. 4.6.0 is going to be tagged
> tonight hopefully.


So, for what it's worth, here's my definitive and serious veto to that.


Make sure it works properly with CMake 2.8.4rc1, if not, use the patch.

Due to real life (and not having KDE as my payed job), I don't have time to 
check that myself before Sunday night, probably Monday night.

Alex


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