[cmake-developers] Welcome to June, time for the next release candidate

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Stephen Kelly wrote:

> David Cole wrote:
> 
>> We are preparing to build CMake 2.8.9, release candidate one, in the next
>> few days (or possibly as late as next week).
>> 
>> Is there any pending/outstanding work that anybody thinks is critical for
>> inclusion in CMake 2.8.9?
> 
> I'd very much like the POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE topic to be part of it.
> 
>> 
>> (I don't want to trigger a flurry of activity by sending this out... but
>> I suppose it's better to have it before we decide to cut rc1 than after.
>> ;-)
> 
> Yury did some work on export-sets:
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/7257/focus=7274
Currently it just moves export-sets to a dedicated class, so it can be 
merged if there are no objections. This change would simplify adding 
additional logic to install(EXPORT ...).
> 
> But I don't think it's 'done' enough for inclusion yet unfortunately. The
> existing tests pass, but new ones are needed. Hopefully we can get it
> ready early in the next cycle.
The problem is that I have a few deadlines in June: 2 grant applications 
have deadlines on 15th, and one on 20th... I'll try to find some time for 
cmake, but I'm not sure...
-- 
Yury G. Kudryashov,
mailto: urkud at mccme.ru