[Nexus] More NAPI stuff

[Stuart I. Campbell]

Hi,
As long as the X == 12 then I agree.
Cheers
Stu

On 09/08/2015 07:26 AM, Eugen Wintersberger wrote:
> 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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