[CMake] CMake 2.8.0 RC 1 ready for testing!

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

Hello,

Wow, this is really a surprise. I was not expecting CMake 2.8.0 until
at least mid-2010! What's the expected release date for 2.8.0 final ?

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com> wrote:
> I am happy to announce that CMake 2.8.0 has entered the beta stage! You
> can find the source and binaries here: http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.8/.
>
> I am sure I am leaving something out, but here is the list of changes
> that I came up with.  (If you notice something missing please let me
> know and I will add it to the official release when 2.8.0 is finalized.)
> Changes in CMake 2.8.0 RC 1
>
> - Qt based GUI cmake-gui is now the default GUI, MFC CMakeSetup is no
>  longer included in CMake.  ccmake is still supported.
> - cmake-gui supports multi-state values options.
> - CMake now has cmake --build command that can build any CMake generated
>  project from the command line.
> - Visual Studio 2010 beta support has been added.
> - Significant improvements for the Eclipse project generator (all
>  targets are now available in Eclipse, system include dirs and
>  predefined macros are now  detected so syntax highlighting works
>  better)
> - KDevelop generator now has color output for builds, and non verbose
>  makefiles.
> - CTest supports running tests in parallel with a -j N option.
> - A new CTest CTEST_USE_LAUNCHERS option can be used to get better
>  dashboard error reports with make based tools.
> - CTest has support for sub-projects and labels which can interact
>  with CDash.
> - CTest now supports Git, Mercurial, and Bazaar.
> - It is now possible to use DESTDIR in CPack for any CMake based projects
>  giving more flexibility on the final path names.
> - The CPack Deb generator now computes the arch instead of hard coding it.
> - Fortran/C mixed language projects made much easier. CMake now
>  automatically can compute the run time libraries for a compiler. In
>  addition, a new FortranCInterface module can determine the correct
>  name mangling needed to mix C and Fortran.
> - Intel compiler support added to OSX, and support for embedded
>  manifests in the windows intel compiler was added.
> - Depend scanning is now much faster with makefiles.
> - Many FindQt4 improvements to stay working with current Qt releases
> - FindMPI has improvements for windows.
> - FindRuby.cmake now supports Ruby 1.9
> - FindBoost has been updated to work with the most recent boost releases.
> - New External Project Module.  The 'ExternalProject_Add' function
>  creates a custom target to drive download, update/patch, configure,
>  build, install and test steps of an external project.
> - xmlrpc dependancy has been removed
> - CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET cache variable has been created to set the
>  deployment OS for a build on OSX.
> - Several new policies were added:
>  CMP0012
>       The if() command can recognize named boolean constants.
>  CMP0013
>       Duplicate binary directories are not allowed.
>  CMP0014
>       Input directories must have CMakeLists.txt.
>  CMP0015
>       The set() CACHE mode and option() command make the cache value
>       visible.
> - Lots of bug fixes.
>
>
> Please try this version of CMake on your projects and report any issues
> to the list or the bug tracker ( I have added a CMake-2-8 version ).
>
> Happy, building!
>
> -Bill
>
>
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)