[vtk-developers] Meeting minutes

[Sean McBride]

On 12/17/09 11:15 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell said:

>> It might involve an alligment of the planets and a VTK release or two first
>> :-p
>>
>> That said, I am responsible for all VTK/ParaView dashboards and I am
>> most definitely in favor of making use of this very cool feature! It
>> would definitely reduce the amount of email I get ;-)
>>
>
>From what Bill said only the dashboard hosts would need CMake 2.8. So we
>could hopefully add subproject support, CMake 2.6.3 would continue to build
>VTK without issue but 2.8.0 would be required to submit builds to the
>dashboards. That should be a reasonable requirement as far as I can see.

Except then nothing is testing VTK's ability to be built with older
CMakes.  What if VTK's CMake script gets 2.8-only syntax added to it
accidentally, or can CMake 2.8 warn if that happens?  (Just being
devil's advocate, personally, I'm happy with requiring 2.8 for everyone.)

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