[Cmake] Requesting 1.4 - patch 6

Bill Hoffman bill . hoffman at kitware . com
Mon, 09 Jun 2003 11:50:47 -0400


Another reason to use the most recent binary, is that the generators do get
updated and changed.   For example, 1.6.7 is the only cmake release that will
support visual studio 7 2003.

-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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