Re: trouble posting to cygwin-apps

[Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman@kitware.com>]

Really this belongs on the CMake dev list.

The new release I just posted is not really a new release of CMake, but 
it is a new release for cygwin.  The current cmake that comes with 
cygwin is 2.6.4 (very old).  The one I just uploaded was 2.8.2 (still 
old but much newer.)  It has no changes at all.

We are currently working on 2.8.3, it has some of the patches you want, 
but not all.  However, please work with me on the cmake dev list to come 
up with a solution that won't break all of the projects I support (VTK, 
ITK, and several others).

I am sure if we work together we can come up with a solution that makes 
everyone happy.   But, I would really rather have that discussion on the 
CMake developers mailing list.

(http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers)

I do not want to create a cygwin release that does not match the 
upstream CMake.

Thanks.

-Bill


> Bill,
>
> As you are aware, my CMake build in Ports contains the necessary
> patches.  We (Cygwin package managers) need WIN32 to be undefined for
> software to build in a *NIX/X11 mode on Cygwin, and we are not concerned
> with backwards compatibility with what we perceive to be incorrect
> behaviour.  Without these changes, many of us will still need to rely on
> Ports' CMake, continuing the conflicts between Ports and the distro
> which I am trying to eliminate.
>
> Secondly, Qt4 has been available for some time, so cmake-gui can now be
> provided.  Due to the substantial additional dependencies of Qt, this
> should be a separate binary package; my .cygport shows how this can be
> done.
>
> My patches for 2.8.2 are available here:
>
> http://cygwin-ports.git.sourceforge.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=cygwin-ports/ports;a=tree;f=devel/cmake
>
> Regardless of the current upstream state, I must ask you to include
> these patches for our distribution so that your cmake packages will be
> useful to us in the meantime, until we can find a mutually agreeable
> solution.
>
>
> Yaakov
>
>
>
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