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Message #22000
Re: GLM versioning
0.9.5.1 is definitely good enough for the main branch; it's only the new 3D
work (which is still far from merging) which might require a higher version
(or it might not - it hasn't been tested with 0.9.5.1).
- Cirilo
On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Jean-Samuel Reynaud <js.reynaud@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Currently the version on CMakeLists.txt is 0.9.5.4. On Ubuntu 14.04 the
> available version is 0.9.5.1.
> Did I build a backport of libglm for ubuntu or 0.9.5.1 is enougth ?
> or other solution ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Le 05/12/2015 23:11, Cirilo Bernardo a écrit :
> > I had a look at GLM issues and it's a bigger hassle than I initially
> > imagined.
> >
> > 1. earlier versions provided a very primitive FindGLM which did not
> > handle versions
> > 2. current versions deprecated FindGLM in favor of the glmConfig.cmake
> > files etc
> > which in principle allow you to use glm as an 'external' project -
> > except of course
> > (a) we still lack a FindGLM (b) installation of these cmake external
> > project files
> > is unreliable across distributions and platforms and (c) even if these
> > external
> > project files were present it is not clear how we take advantage of the
> > version info.
> >
> > On top of all that, GLM hard-codes the revision number into the top level
> > CMakeLists.txt and there is no guarantee that this number is the same as
> > the actual version information which is stored as #defines in setup.hpp.
> >
> > SO - it looks to me like the most sensible thing to do is (a) take the
> > deprecated
> > FindGLM.cmake file as a primitive starting point to implement our own
> > version
> > which supports versioning. The greatest challenge then is extracting the
> > version information from setup.hpp in a platform independent way.
> >
> > - Cirilo
> >
> >
> >
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