Re: Adding CMake to 1.15.x release notes

On Wed, 22 Jul 2026 at 17:26, Nathan Hartman <[email protected]>
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?


I made this document just to show the current state in trunk@HEAD, so I'm
not sure it fits well in the release notes as-is. I would also say this
information is too detailed for them.

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??
>
>
One problem with having an external document/wiki page it that it needs to
be maintained and kept up-to-date, or it will start showing outdated
information. But if we do want it in the release notes, maybe it could be
embedded as a plain HTML table. That would match the other parts of the
release notes and doesn't need updating, because it is a point-in-time
snapshot.

-- 
Ivan Zhakov