[gdal-dev] RFC 84: Migrating build systems to CMake

[Greg Troxel]

Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com> writes:

> ==> I've thus gone to "git mv gdal/* ." to remove the gdal/
> subdirectory. Of course number of boring changes were needed to adapt
> CI scripts, Docker, mkgdaldist.sh, etc.  This will also impact
> downstream users building from git once that work will have landed
> into master. I'll wait for the release/3.4 branch to have been created
> (probably in ~ 10 days) before merging this. A side effect is that it
> will slightly complicate the workflow for 3.5 -> 3.4 backports, but
> that's a temporary inconvenience for a longer term advantage.

When it is time for release please start out with alpha, as from the POV
of packaging systems this is a big deal.   I would expect at least 30
days, probably >=45, from alpha to release, to allow people calendar
time to find the time to deal with transition, report issues, and get
them resolved.


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