[cmake-developers] Preparing for 2.8.11-rc1

[Brad King]

On 03/07/2013 04:09 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2013, Brad King wrote:
>> On 03/07/2013 03:47 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>>> Well, the usr-move fix must go in.
>>> Otherwise all installed Config-files on usr-move distros which have
>>> references outside lib/ (e.g. into bin/ or include/) are broken.
>>> I think I won't manage to get that working tomorrow, but next week then.
>>
>> ...or those distros can add the patch to their 2.8.11.
>>
>> We originally wanted to do 2.8.11-rc1 on Feb 1 but delayed to wait
>> for Stephen's changes to mature.  You've had weeks to get this
>> change done.
> 
> Yes, I know.
> I assumed Stephen would do that since he put all the work with the include-
> dirs etc. in.

He said explicitly on Feb 1 that he would not work on that one:

 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/5868/focus=5985

You've waited weeks to bring this up again.  If we weren't delaying
due to the usage requirements feature you would have missed the boat
long ago.

He did start (not yet finished) work on the missing target error but
that is unrelated to usr-move and can wait.

> IOW: without this fix cmake's exported target files are non-working on usr-
> move systems if installed into one of the affected directories.
> That's IMO a blocker.

It's no worse than 2.8.10.  Whatever fix you produce can be backported
into whatever version those distros have.

We're planning to do 2.8.11-rc1 next week whether you have a change
ready or not.  There are plenty of other fixes people are awaiting.

-Brad