[CMake] CMake 2.8.6 available for download

[Clifford Yapp]

Hmm.  Part of the problem might be the generators most of the folks who
follow CMake closely tend to use - I'm a command line + vim linux weenie
myself, so I'm only going to be testing a subset of the generators.  I
imagine others are Windows only, etc.

One idea that comes to mind might be to put up a table when the RC process
starts - one column per generator, and the rows listing various open source
projects using CMake that are known to work with various generators.  If
it's expected in advance that a particular project won't build, just black
out that cell so people know not to try, but otherwise people could fill in
the matrix with "RC1" or "RC4" as they test particular generators and
projects and they succeed.  That would give folks a place to check what has
and has not been looked at - "Urk! nobody's tried the Eclipse generator yet
for this RC" or "It's been 3 RC bumps since anybody checked Visual Studio
8."  And if particular generators go untested for a while, the call could be
put out on the email lists - "somebody please try generator X with project Y
before release"

Would that help?

Cheers,
CY

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:

> On 10/5/2011 11:17 AM, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
>
>  Peter, is that your problem also?  Can you edit your .cbp to remove lines
>> like
>> that?  Or copy it to a file with a .xml extension then open it in a
>> program
>> that can check the xml (e.g. firefox).
>>
>>
>
> So, what can we do to get people to try the RC's?   This issue was in RC 1
> which went out on 8/26.
>
>
>  Patch by Campbell Barton: puts definitions into C::B project file
>
>
> This is really frustrating for the CMake team.  We really need the help of
> the users to make sure we have most of the big issues worked out with the
> releases.  This issue has been around for over a month in the RC releases
> and no one notices.  Then less than 24 hours after the official release we
> get the bug report...  :(
>
>
> -Bill
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