[CMake] "Mastering CMake": which cmake version?

[David Cole]

Looks like you're right: the last published edition of the book was based
on 2.8.0.

The 2.8.0 tag was from mid-November, 2009:
http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commit;h=612409e5b01a7e4823bb379ee9e002177793eb75

2.8.1 was in March 2010:
http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commit;h=8c89b5e2dcab146557c6eac0c32e2ab813ae6428

By the way, you can tell exactly what version the generated portion of the
book (the appendices) came from by looking at the very last page of the
last appendix about policies -- the book actually says "CMake version
2.8.0-rc2 warns..."

When writing the actual text of the book, we try very carefully not to
mention the version of CMake because it applies to the current version and
all later versions if we do our jobs correctly. So the book is still
relevant today despite the fact that it was based on 2.8.0.


HTH,
David


On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Doug <douglas.linder at gmail.com> wrote:

> Idly, I can't find anything in the book referencing 2.8.1, the closest
> I've noticed is some talk about 2.8.0-rc2. I haven't exhaustively searched
> or anything, just flicked through.
>
> ~
> Doug.
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 7, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>wrote:
>
>> On 6/7/2012 10:24 AM, Thompson, K T wrote:
>>
>>> On Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:56 PM, Dan Kegel<dank at kegel.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Working through examples is the most important feature of the text.
>>> I think the tutorial found at
>>> http://www.cmake.org/cmake/**help/cmake_tutorial.html<http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake_tutorial.html>is the same or
>>> similar to those examples found in the book and may be of use to you.
>>> The tutorial assumes cmake-2.6 and should work for any newer version
>>> of cmake.
>>>
>>
>>
>> The last book was finalized on 2009-12-11 which covers up through CMake
>> 2.8.1.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> -Bill
>>
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