svn commit: r1936491 - subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes

Author: hartmannathan
Date: Wed Jul 22 15:54:32 2026
New Revision: 1936491

Log:
In site/staging:

Add a "Build System Comparison" table in the 1.15 release notes.

This is an experimental addition, based on an ongoing discussion [1]
about how to document the current limitations of our CMake build
system in the 1.15 release. Ideas presented in that thread included
maintaining a table in CWIKI, in the release notes, or as a separate
file that might be called buildsystems.html.

A Google Docs spreadsheet [2] currently holds this information.

For now, I'm placing it in the release notes so we can see how that
would look. If we decide to take a different approach, this change can
be simply reverted, with a nice "Note from the future" added below by
some intrepid time traveler...

* doc/release-notes/1.15.html:
  (#cmake): New subsection #build-system-comparison.

[1] The dev@ thread "Adding CMake to 1.15.x release notes" started 
    16 May 2026 and continuing to the present, archived here:
    https://lists.apache.org/thread/gyojgmgrs510gj6crwbvoc0t95m36mpo
    especially the messages posted today (22 July 2026).

[2] https://lists.apache.org/thread/3h21gwcf4s3pvj0tlxmbxl24g24zmx5p

Modified:
   subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.15.html

Modified: subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.15.html
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--- subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.15.html	Wed Jul 22 15:22:20 2026	(r1936490)
+++ subversion/site/staging/docs/release-notes/1.15.html	Wed Jul 22 15:54:32 2026	(r1936491)
@@ -870,6 +870,364 @@ building Subversion on non-Windows platf
 
 </div> <!-- automake-not-going-away -->
 
+<div class="h4" id="build-system-comparison">
+<h4>Build System Comparison
+  <a class="sectionlink" href="#build-system-comparison"
+     title="Link to this section">&para;</a>
+</h4>
+
+<p>The following table compares the features supported by the Automake, CMake,
+and vcproj build systems as of the 1.15.0 release:</p>
+
+<table border="1">
+  <tr>
+    <th>Category</th>
+    <th>Feature</th>
+    <th>Automake</th>
+    <th>CMake</th>
+    <th>vcproj</th>
+    <th>Notes</th>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>Gnome Keyring (libsecret)</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>GPG agent</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>KWallet (KDE 4)</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>KWallet (KDE 5)</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>MacOS Keychain</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Auth module</td>
+    <td>Gnome Keyring (gnome-keyring-1)</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bindings</td>
+    <td>C++ bindings</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bindings</td>
+    <td>JavaHL bindings</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bindings</td>
+    <td>Perl SWIG bindings</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bindings</td>
+    <td>Python SWIG bindings</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Bindings</td>
+    <td>Ruby SWIG bindings</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Compiler</td>
+    <td>Clang</td>
+    <td>?</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Compiler</td>
+    <td>GCC</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Compiler</td>
+    <td>MSVC</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>FS</td>
+    <td>BDB filesystem</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>BDB FS is deprecated.</td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>FS</td>
+    <td>FSFS filesystem</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>FS</td>
+    <td>FSX filesystem</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Options</td>
+    <td>SVN_DISABLE_PLAINTEXT_PASSWORD_STORAGE</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td class="s9"></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Apache modules</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>DSO FS and RA modules</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>libmagic</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>MacOS sysinfo</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>memcache</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>NLS</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Out of source tree build</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>SASL</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Shared build</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Shared FS modules</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Shared RA modules</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Static build</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Other</td>
+    <td>Static CRT build</td>
+    <td>N/A</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Package Managers</td>
+    <td>CMake config</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Package Managers</td>
+    <td>PKG Config</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Platform</td>
+    <td>Linux</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Platform</td>
+    <td>MacOS</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Platform</td>
+    <td>Windows</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>RA</td>
+    <td>ra_serf</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>RA</td>
+    <td>ra_svn</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>RA</td>
+    <td>ra_local</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Testing</td>
+    <td>file://</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Testing</td>
+    <td>svn://</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td class="s5"></td>
+  </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td>Testing</td>
+    <td>http://</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td>no</td>
+    <td>yes</td>
+    <td class="s22"></td>
+  </tr>
+</table>
+
+</div> <!-- build-system-comparison -->
+
 </div> <!-- cmake -->
 
 </div>  <!-- new-features -->