[CMake] Call for Module maintainer volunteers

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2007-07-26 18:35-0400 Brandon Van Every wrote:

> On 7/26/07, Alan W. Irwin <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:
>> On 2007-07-26 13:55-0400 Brandon Van Every wrote:
>> 
>> > I think it is very important that any experimental releases have no
>> > effect on official CMake installations at all.
>> 
>> That's already been stated.  I say again, you will not be affected by this
>> proposal at all.
>
> That's not the point.  The point is to define the exact mechanism by
> which this is guaranteed.  Just having people download "official"
> CMakes or "experimental" CMakes at their whim won't guarantee it.
> People will get confused about which CMake they're using.  If the
> world starts getting populated by CMakes of uncertain composition, I
> am indeed affected.

Hmm. That (keeping users from being confused about which version they have)
is what release numbers are for.  Thus, I am not at all convinced by your
argument.

I think the fundamental reason why you are attempting to be a change blocker
on my suggestion to make module releases is you don't feel comfortable with
the free software culture which encourages releases.  I do feel extremely
comfortable with that culture (I have been living it for the last decade),
and that is why I am encouraging the CMake developers to start making
module releases.

Alan
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Alan W. Irwin

Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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