[cmake-developers] Support for version suffixes

[Jean-Michaël Celerier]

I remember asking for the same thing a few weeks ago on IRC because of a
small behaviour change in cmake 3.8.0 rc2 that I wanted to put behind an
if(version_less).

Alphanumeric ordering would certainly work for most projects : alpha < beta
< rc. (I generally use a0, a1, a2... b0, b1, b2...)

Best
Jean-Michaël

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 11:03 PM, Roger Leigh <rleigh at codelibre.net> wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> I'd like to bring this issue to your attention to canvas some feedback
> regarding the use of version suffixes:
>
>   https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/16716
>
> This is basically a proposal to allow an optional version suffix like
> "-rc3", "-beta1" etc. in addition to the existing major.minor.patch.tweak
> pattern, for better interoperability with systems and software releases
> already using such suffixes, and also to permit the use of such suffixes by
> CMake projects for their own purposes.  A version suffix would be usable
> anywhere currently using 4 digit versions, with all the necessary
> functionality in CMake being updated to handle this.
>
> The proposal linked above contains a much more detailed rationale and
> suggested implementation strategy.  I'd be very happy to hear any thoughts
> anyone has regarding this either on the above issue, or here.
>
>
> Thanks all,
> Roger
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