[Nexus] More NAPI stuff

[Eugen Wintersberger]

Thank you Rolf for the survey you did. I guess that shows why staying
with 2.8.X is a reasonable decision.

PS: I am back from vacation.

On 09/08/15 13:22, Rolf Krahl wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 25. August 2015, 13:52:19 schrieb Campbell, Stuart I.:
>> I don't think we should be held back by this, especially as there
>> are newer versions readily available. If you want a newer cmake on
>> suse then there are already packages available on the opensuse build
>> service.
> 
> Of course one can easily install a newer cmake version on any system.
> The problem is that many users will simply not do it, at least not on
> a production system, but will rather opt to waive building NAPI on
> their systems then.  These people have a very good reason to stick
> with the native packages from their distribution if possible, because
> if you install your own version of a package, you'll lose the vendor
> support and won't get patches and bug fixes for it.
> 
> openSUSE 13.1 was only the one example that I had at hand when I wrote
> my last mail.  Here is a somewhat more complete list of cmake versions
> that are shipped with major distributions:
> 
>   CentOS 5: 2.6.4
>   CentOS 6.6: 2.8.12.2
>   CentOS 7.0: 2.8.11
>   Debian 7: 2.8.9
>   Debian 8: 3.0.2
>   Fedora 21: 3.0.2
>   Fedora 22: 3.2.2
>   RHEL 5: 2.6.4
>   RHEL 6.5: 2.6.4
>   RHEL 7.0: 2.8.11
>   SLE 11 SP3: 2.6.2
>   SLE 11 SP4: 2.8.12.1
>   SLE 12: 2.8.12.1
>   openSUSE 13.1: 2.8.11.2
>   openSUSE 13.2: 3.0.2
>   Ubuntu 12.04: 2.8.7
>   Ubuntu 14.04: 2.8.12.2
>   Ubuntu 14.10: 2.8.12.2
>   Ubuntu 15.04: 3.0.2
> 
> So, there will be some users around that have cmake 2.8.12, but many
> users still use older versions.
> 
> I don't argue that we must support all of these versions at all cost.
> But we shouldn't dump these users without a very good reason.
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
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