On 2024-11-13, Alexandru Croitor via Development <development@qt-project.org> wrote: > Do you consider it unreasonable due to backports being 'backports', so not > 'stable', thus you are completely against installing any software from there?
Yes. Also I need other projects I work at to not pull in a too new CMake by accident. The simplest way is to use a kind of old cmake. > Or is it more specific that you think that the backports-provided cmake will > not be stable enough for building software? > > CMake is generally very good in regards to compatibility and building older > and newer projects. The change in Debian unstable from 3.30 to 3.31 just made a lot of Qt-using software fail to build, so I'm not so sure about the actual correctness of that statement. > Especially when it's easy to just install a specific standalone > kitware-provided cmake binary into a custom location, and use > that only for specific projects. I can of course compile CMake myself. Just as I can compile Qt myself. And a lot of other software. It is just every added thing makes the barrier of contribution higher. For most projects, I still think that having a base line of 'can be built' in newest debian stable, newest ubuntu lts, newest RHEL. One of the few exceptions for that has been bigger migrations, like qt5->6 of 'client software' /Sune -- Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
