Re: Adding CMake to 1.15.x release notes

On 22. 7. 2026 17:04, Daniel Sahlberg wrote:
> Den ons 22 juli 2026 kl 16:54 skrev Branko Čibej <[email protected]>:
>
>     On 22. 7. 2026 16:25, Nathan Hartman wrote:
>>     On Sat, May 16, 2026 at 3:18 PM Ivan Zhakov<[email protected]> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>>>     On Sat, 16 May 2026 at 20:19, Nathan Hartman<[email protected]> <mailto:[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.
>
>
> I don't like the CWiki layout and I've been bitten more than once that 
> URLs changed under the feet of a webpage (probably because someone 
> improved the title). I would prefer to make a separate page 
> buildsystems.html or something like that and convert this into a HTML 
> table.


True that Confluence isn't friendly in that regard. "Permalinks" exist 
but are less permanent than the dictionary definition.

-- Brane