Pushing cmake 2.6 to F9

[Ben Boeckel]

On Friday 15 August 2008 05:35:05 pm Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Friday 15 August 2008 02:23:35 pm Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> 
wrote:
> > > I've gotten a request to update cmake to 2.6 in F-9.  Does anyone have
> > > any objections?  There can be some slight incompatibilities, but are
> > > generally easily fixed.
> >
> > Yes, I object. It has some substantial incompatibilities with cmake
> > 2.4.8 that break some of the software I work on (Second Life). The
> > bugs in question are fixed in 2.6.1, but I don't think it would be a
> > good idea to build and push that, either: you'll break *someone*
> > unexpectedly, and they won't be reading this list until it's too late.
>
> Why should Fedora care about Second Life? It is neither in the repos nor
> Free Software. You can just not upgrade cmake if it breaks your setup too
> badly. Some need features in cmake 2.6 to move forward. Fedora should not
> stand still for non-Free Software.
>
> As for breakage in other apps, they can be fixed and sent upstream by
> maintainers or other volunteers. It wouldn't be pushed without testing in
> any case. If koji gets failed builds due to dependencies, it usually gets
> posted to the list.
>
> --Ben

I missed something: Second Life /is/ open source (I hadn't found a link for the 
source on the downloads page and assumed from there). However, the not 
upgrading still applies if it breaks your build (and 2.6.1 fixes this in any 
case it seems).

--Ben