From kde-core-devel  Sat Sep 29 11:19:30 2012
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 11:19:30 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Requiring cmake 2.8.9 for kdelibs 4.10 ?
Message-Id: <201209291319.30620.neundorf () kde ! org>
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On Saturday 29 September 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Saturday 29 September 2012 11:48:03 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Saturday 29 September 2012, André Wöbbeking wrote:
> > > Hi Alex,
> > > 
> > > On Saturday 29 September 2012 10:36:55 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > I know this will cause some effort, because I guess only few
> > > > distributions already come with CMake 2.8.9, but doing this once
> > > > again after 2 1/2 years seems acceptable for me.
> > > 
> > > Do you really need 2.8.9 or would 2.8.8 from April also be sufficient?
> > > The older version would probably cause less trouble?!?
> > 
> > Actually I'd prefer 2.8.10, to be released beginning of November, which
> > might even still make it before the dependency freeze :-)
> 
> please don't. Debian testing and the next Kubuntu release is currently at
> 2.8.9 (Debian in fact at 2.8.9~rc1-1) 

Do you mean they ship cmake 2.8.9 rc1 ?
They should not do that, this can break all kinds of stuff.

> and given that both are frozen there
> is no possibility to get in a new version.
> 
> Using a later version means quite a high entry level for hacking on KDE.

I know that.
Installing cmake is as simple as wget'ing the file und untarring it to /opt/.

But how does that differ from requiring other very recent packages, including 
Qt ?

Beside, we didn't upgrade cmake since more than 2 years...

But ok, I did not seriously propose to require CMake 2.8.10.

Alex