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

[Even Rouault]

Le 15/10/2021 à 20:18, Greg Troxel a écrit :
> 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.

That git tree reorganization alone should hardly impact packagers still 
using autoconf, as the release tarball structure will be unchanged. This 
only impacts folks building from git

The full cmake transition will certainly require more time, but that 
will probably be beyond 3.5

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