[CMake] Bug fix requests for the *next* release of CMake...

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 11 January 2012, Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> Am 02.01.2012 18:11, schrieb David Cole:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Replies requested. Short replies only. Read on. Just a short reply
> > with bug numbers or links to the bugs is all we need here. Please move
> > specific discussions into the bugs themselves or start a new thread to
> > talk about it... Replies on this thread should just be a collector for
> > bug numbers.
> > 
> > Example one-line reply:
> >   http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12647
> > 
> > We are aiming for quarterly releases from now on, scheduling them
> > every 3 months. That would make the next release of CMake version
> > 2.8.8, scheduled to have an "rc1" release candidate on Wed. March 7,
> > 2012 -- just 9 weeks from this Wednesday.
> > 
> > If you have a particular issue that you think should be fixed for
> > inclusion in 2.8.8, please bring it up within the next two weeks.
> > Ideally, each issue will be discussed as needed on the mailing list to
> > come to any consensus about what should be done to fix it, and then an
> > entry in the bug tracker may be used to keep it on the radar screen,
> > and to track activity related to it. You can see what's on the roadmap
> > for this release here:
> > http://public.kitware.com/Bug/roadmap_page.php?version_id=90
> > 
> > Patches are always welcome. Patches that include testing of any new
> > features, or tests that prove a bug is really fixed on the dashboards,
> > basically any patch with testing is preferred over a patch with no
> > testing. Also, if you are *adding* code, then you also probably need
> > to add *tests* of that code, so that the coverage percentage stays as
> > is or rises.
> > 
> > Please discuss issues here as needed, and add notes to existing issues
> > in the bug tracker that you are interested in seeing fixed -- we will
> > be looking at the mailing list and activity in the bug tracker to help
> > prioritize the bug fixes that will occur in the near future.
> 
> My personal issues are:
> http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=10994
> and connected to it: http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=11153
> The handling of the windows drive root is not consistent/wrong, which
> leads to both errors. I checked yesterday but the patches I added in
> 10994 do lead to an endless loop in 11153. I will try to come up with a
> better patch in the coming days.

IMO these are quite important issue, since they issue causes every 
FooConfig.cmake file installed by any of the KDE libraries to contain extra 
code to work around this issue, which makes them less readable and harder to 
write (and easier to get wrong).

Alex