[cmake-developers] Preparing for 2.8.11-rc1

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 04 March 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On 03/04/2013 02:58 PM, Brad King wrote:
> > Stephen,
> > 
> > We originally wanted to start the 2.8.11 release candidate series at
> > the end of January.  We've delayed it while your usage requirements
> > feature has cooked.  Even last week you were polishing up a few subtle
> > corrections, so it was worth the wait.
> > 
> > Normally we try to avoid delaying a new release for a feature still
> > under development but this one required such pervasive changes that
> > it would have been impractical to develop it on a separate branch.
> > Since it is in master we have to wait until it is ready before we
> > can release again.  However, there are many other features and bug
> > fixes since 2.8.10 for which people are awaiting 2.8.11.
> > 
> > Do you feel the feature has become mature enough for release?  Are
> > there any other tests or use cases under development elsewhere on
> > which we should wait?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I have not tried again to implement a proof of concept of the list
> handling after the discussion about it last week. This week I don't
> think I can commit to it either, but I'm not overly concerned about it
> after the discussion we had. It might make sense to put the unit test
> change from
> 
>  
> https://gitorious.org/~steveire/cmake/steveires-cmake/commit/96ec58003de58
> 3794fb7440fc4b3521f272a26d6
> 
> in, but then again, the behavior of code like that won't change until
> the next release, and a policy will probably be needed anyway.
> 
> I don't have other new tests or features aimed for 2.8.11. It would be
> nice to 'fix' cmGeneratorExpression::Split handling of escaped
> semicolons and square brackets, but I don't think I'll have time to do
> that, and I think it can wait until the following release anyway.
> 
> So, I think it's mature enough for release now, yes.

did you get around to add handling for usr-move to the relative directory 
references for exports-files ?
Otherwise I'll see whether I find time this week.

Alex