[Cmake] Requesting 1.4 - patch 6

[Bill Hoffman]

We are making every effort to maintain backwards compatibility.   As I mentioned
the CMake test suite includes some backwards compatible code.   It would be better
not to give them a CMake executable, as we would like folks to be using the most
recent and debugged version of CMake available.

Please post any backwards compatibility problems to the cmake list as a bug.

-Bill
 

At 11:10 AM 6/9/2003, Geoffrey Cross wrote:
>That's exactly what I needed... thanks.
>
>I'm going to be handing this code over to someone with very little knowledge
>of how anything works: can I assume that CMake will always support backwards
>compatibility in this fashion, or should I give them a CMake executable to
>go with the code?
>
>Geoff.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bill Hoffman [mailto:bill . hoffman at kitware . com]
>> Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 4:06 PM
>> To: geoff at cross . lu
>> Subject: RE: [Cmake] Requesting 1.4 - patch 6
>> 
>> The best thing to do, is to add this:
>> 
>> SET(CMAKE_BACKWARDS_COMPATIBILITY 1.2)
>> 
>> at the very top of the first CMakeLists.txt file
>> for the project.  Then you can use the most current release of cmake
>> without a problem.
>> 
>> There is an example of this in the Complex test of cmake.
>> 
>> -Bill
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> At 10:31 AM 6/9/2003, you wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> >> What is the problem?   We do try to be backwards compatible.
>> >> Also, I did not realize that 1.4.6 and 1.4.7 had anything but bug
>> fixes.
>> >
>> >The main problem is that the code is still using the old SOURCE_FILES
>> stuff.
>> >I've got a version of 1.4.6 installed on my old machine and it works
>> fine:
>> >when I undated to 1.4.7 if started complaining about that.
>> >
>> >Geoff.
>> >
>> >
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