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

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday, June 04, 2012 11:58:19 PM 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
> 
> 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.

That's really a pity.
It's kind of a blocker for the splitted kdelibs :-/

Alex