[cmake-developers] Welcome to June, time for the next release candidate

[Stephen Kelly]

Yury G.  Kudryashov wrote:

> Stephen Kelly wrote:
> 
>> David Cole wrote:
>> 
>>> We are preparing to build CMake 2.8.9, release candidate one, in the
>>> next few days (or possibly as late as next week).
>>> 
>>> Is there any pending/outstanding work that anybody thinks is critical
>>> for inclusion in CMake 2.8.9?
>> 
>> I'd very much like the POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE topic to be part of it.
>> 
>>> 
>>> (I don't want to trigger a flurry of activity by sending this out... but
>>> I suppose it's better to have it before we decide to cut rc1 than after.
>>> ;-)
>> 
>> Yury did some work on export-sets:
>> 
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.buildsystem/7257/focus=7274
> Currently it just moves export-sets to a dedicated class, so it can be
> merged if there are no objections. This change would simplify adding
> additional logic to install(EXPORT ...).
>> 
>> But I don't think it's 'done' enough for inclusion yet unfortunately. The
>> existing tests pass, but new ones are needed. Hopefully we can get it
>> ready early in the next cycle.
> The problem is that I have a few deadlines in June: 2 grant applications
> have deadlines on 15th, and one on 20th... I'll try to find some time for
> cmake, but I'm not sure...

I don't think there's any need to rush the cmake feature, and there's no 
need to get the refactoring in without the feature. Let's keep your current 
work and aim to get it finished for 2.8.10.

Thanks,

Steve.