1.5.5 package issue

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Thu Oct 2 09:07:00 GMT 2003


On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 03:56:32PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> I am the maintainer for CMake.   I have held off on the next
> release of cmake because I was waiting for cygwin 1.5.x to stabilize.
> However, for CMake I am thinking that building it against 1.5.x may
> not be in the best interest of its users.   If I build against 1.3.x, then
> people can use cmake with either 1.5.x or 1.3.x.  Also, they will not be forced
> to go to 1.5.x just to get the next version of cmake.   My question is, 
> will 1.3.x application still get uploaded?  I really do not want to have
> to maintain both a 1.5.x and a 1.3.x version.  What are other packages doing?

New packages should be built under 1.5.x.  What is a cmake good for,
which runs under 1.3.x if gcc and friends only run under 1.5.x anyway?

Corinna

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