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Hi,<br>
As long as the X == 12 then I agree. <br>
Cheers<br>
Stu<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/08/2015 07:26 AM, Eugen
Wintersberger wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">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:
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<pre wrap="">Am Dienstag, 25. August 2015, 13:52:19 schrieb Campbell, Stuart I.:
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<pre wrap="">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.
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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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Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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