[CMake] CMake 2.8.7-rc2 ready for testing!

[Eric Noulard]

2011/12/30 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>:
>
> There is no conservative course here. There is a choice of whether to make
> CMake 2.8.7 behave the same as 2.8.6 or the same as 2.8.5.
>
> For this to be a showstopper it would have had to be reported before we
> tagged 2.8.6 -- since it is now already in 2.8.6, it should simply be
> considered a bug that we will try to address as soon as possible and get it
> merged into master in time for the following release.
>
> It would also be nice if this were more than simply a back-and-forth
> discussion between you and I. I would sure appreciate more input from other
> LAPACK and BLAS clients.

May be no-so-simple Find modules
(FindLAPACK is 307 lines long and FindBLAS is 624 lines long)
deserve a dedicated dashboard.
The interested user could setup a submission to this dashboard for their
favorite software build such that testing would be more systematic.

May be it could be done with some ctest scripts that would submit
the update/configure/build/test of the interested project to
this "FindLAPACK" dashboard?

> I will take this as a personal lesson not to
> schedule a release of any kind the week in between Christmas and New Year's.

I thought you did chose that windows to avoid too much complaint,
for this one :-]

Just kidding.
No one raised the hand when you announced the release date, so
I bet we all have responsability in this.

> If we stick to our schedule throughout the coming year, I'll make sure that
> the December release of CMake next year is well *before* Christmas.

Good decision though.

-- 
Erk
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