Re: Adding CMake to 1.15.x release notes

Branko Čibej <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel
Organization The Apache Software Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 22. 7. 2026 16:25, Nathan Hartman wrote:
> On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM Ivan Zhakov<[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 16 May 2026 at 20:19, Nathan Hartman<[email protected]> wrote:
>>> r1934265 (improving the CMake text in INSTALL) reminded me that CMake
>>> is not yet mentioned in the 1.15.x Release Notes.
>>>
>>> I'd like to add it there--after all, it is a new major (and long-
>>> requested!) feature in 1.15.x!
>> +1!
>>
>>> But I've lost track of where it is
>>> currently. Has it reached parity with the autotools build, e.g., being
>>> able to build all the bindings? Any current limitations I should
>>> document?
>>>
>> A week ago I created document to summarize features supported by different Subversion build systems.
>>
>> Google Sheet document:
>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1goa9mrX75RhqQLSsNAr9z6G6cqDvUMDe5xWDJYG99cg/edit?gid=0#gid=0
>
> Is this spreadsheet considered the source of truth for the status of
> the CMake build? If so, can/should I link to it from the Release
> Notes? Alternatively, we could move this to the CWIKI, or turn it into
> a HTML table and put it in the release notes directly, or... any other
> ideas??

Using cwiki and linking from there would be fine, it's a live document 
after all. Maybe add columns for "supported in version..." since at 
least the CMake build will be catching up for a while.


>> PDF is also attached.
>>
>> I didn't all features: in many cases I just have checked relevant source code.
>>
>> Any comments and fixes will be much appreciated.


On the testing side, our test suit also supports https:// and svn+ssh:// 
and various combinations of server version and WC version, those lines 
should probably be added. Though there's no automated support for the 
less frequently used features.

-- Brane
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