[Dune-devel] This weekend CMake will become default buildsystem

[Oliver Sander]

Am 22.11.2014 um 00:19 schrieb Christoph Grüninger:
> Hi Markus,
> thanks for your feedback, but I disagree.
> 
>> You are assuming that everybody that uses the master is also reading this list. I am unsure whether we can safely assume
>> this. Therefore people might get caught off guard.
> 
> No, I don't assume this. It was published in the Dune minutes
> from 2014, it is part of our Flyspray, I announced it on
> dune-devel and will do so on the dune user mailing list and the
> news at our homepage.
> If it break for users in Dune-master, so be it, there is a
> remaining risk. Once it breaks, hopefully they will check one of
> lists.
> Additionally, user always can revert breaking commits. That should
> be enough, I don't think we should treat our users as stupid and
> I will not support the Vollkasskomentalität (being over protective).
> 
>> Then we could do the actual switch shortly before the release without bothering to many users by breaking their builds.
> 
> Actually, I want to get breaking builds now. I want to get feedback,
> bug reports and issues. Now. Right before the release would make
> Dune 2.4 potentially a bad release and break builds of more
> conservative users.
> 
> So unless you or someone else veto for further discussions, I'll
> proceed with my announced plan.
> 

I agree with Christoph on this.  There is always a certain risk involved
with running git master.  If people do that and not follow any of our
usual communication channels... I'd say tough luck.

--
Oliver



> Best,
> Christoph
> 


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