2010/11/25 Johannes Zarl <johannes.z...@jku.at>: > On Wednesday 24 November 2010 19:03:21 David Cole wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Tyler Roscoe <ty...@cryptio.net> wrote: >> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:41:46AM -0500, David Cole wrote: >> >> On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:34 AM, Rolf Eike Beer <e...@sf-mail.de> wrote: >> >> > So I think it is _really_ necessary to go through all the CMake >> >> > documentation items and add a line about when which feature was added. >> >> >> >> Adding that information in the documentation would be good, I agree. >> >> (Although quite time consuming and costly for somebody...) >> > >> > Perhaps a good compromise is simply to add version information to all >> > new CMake commands/variables/properties that are added henceforth? >> > >> > Thanks, >> > tyler >> >> That does sound like a good idea. > > From the information in http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Released_Versions and > using some shell-scripts to create the diffs between all "neighbor-versions", > it's not too much work to create a compatibility matrix for the documented > features.
May be it can be fully automated suche that adding a column for each new CMake release would take minimum time? > I took the liberty and compiled such a compatibility matrix here: > http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Version_Compatibility_Matrix > > It's a draft and does not (yet) contain information about properties and > variables, but if this idea receives general consent I could complete the > information. > > What do you think? Is this worth the effort, or would no one ever bother to > update the information? I like it too, I think it's very handy. Concerning the update I think I will be done (and I may help) if some scripts pre-digest the informations to be laid out. -- Erk Membre de l'April - « promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre » - http://www.april.org _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
