[CMake] documentation for previous cmake versions

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-02-28 22:03+0100 Eric Noulard wrote:

> 2007/2/28, Alexander Neundorf <a.neundorf-work at gmx.net>:
>> >
>> > History:
>> > New Since 2.4.0 New INSTALL macro
>> > New Since 2.4.4 Added the INSTALL(DIRECTORY ...) support
>> 
>> E.g. for FIND_PACKAGE() the COMPONENT feature was added in 2.4.4. This 
>> might become a long list when done completely for all commands.
>> 
>
> You are right but in at first glance I would say that those
> per-MACRO history list may not be as long as you think.
> Very new feature on just the same MACRO is not so common,
> of course I may be wrong.
>
> Even if the history is long I'll find it more usable than separate
> browsing of different version, but of course that's my point of view.

I think that is a lot of work so we will get nothing as a result from our
time-constrained CMake developers.

What I would like to see is the results of cmake --help-full output to an
ascii file and committed under CVS control for every historical release in
say the 2.4.x series up to 2.4.6.  That would only take a small one-time
effort by the CMake developers to build each of the 6 cmake releases in the
2.4.x series and make those 6 commits.  After that initial effort for the
historical releases, this would only have to be done once after each
official release. Suppose that file was called Docs/help_full.out. Then
browsing that file in
http://www.cmake.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/Docs/?root=CMake automatically
gives the user any diff between any version.

Alan
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