Merge topic 'submit-method'

9501a6145d CTest: Remove special case for Dart version <= 1
e184603378 CTest: Add release note about removed submission methods
8c25aa2feb CTest: Remove submission trigger
a688c6b928 CTest: Remove submit method 'ftp'
c339b64cf2 CTest: Remove submit method 'scp'
aebdad399e CTest: Remove submit method 'cp'
c2f6872c4e CTest: Remove submit method 'xmlrpc'

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !2672

4 files changed, 14 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst b/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
index 9e0ce27..110b08f 100644
--- a/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/ctest.1.rst
@@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ Configuration settings include:
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``BUILDNAME``
 
 ``CDashVersion``
-  Specify the version of `CDash`_ on the server.
+  Legacy option.  Not used.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: none, detected from server
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``CTEST_CDASH_VERSION``
@@ -1106,17 +1106,14 @@ Configuration settings include:
 
 ``DropMethod``
   Specify the method by which results should be submitted to the
-  dashboard server.  The value may be ``cp``, ``ftp``, ``http``,
-  ``https``, ``scp``, or ``xmlrpc`` (if CMake was built with
-  support for it).
+  dashboard server.  The value may be ``http`` or ``https``.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: :variable:`CTEST_DROP_METHOD`
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``DROP_METHOD`` if set,
     else ``CTEST_DROP_METHOD``
 
 ``DropSite``
-  The dashboard server name
-  (for ``ftp``, ``http``, and ``https``, ``scp``, and ``xmlrpc``).
+  The dashboard server name.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: :variable:`CTEST_DROP_SITE`
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``DROP_SITE`` if set,
@@ -1139,14 +1136,13 @@ Configuration settings include:
     else ``CTEST_DROP_SITE_USER``
 
 ``IsCDash``
-  Specify whether the dashboard server is `CDash`_ or an older
-  dashboard server implementation requiring ``TriggerSite``.
+  Legacy option.  Not used.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: :variable:`CTEST_DROP_SITE_CDASH`
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``CTEST_DROP_SITE_CDASH``
 
 ``ScpCommand``
-  ``scp`` command-line tool to use when ``DropMethod`` is ``scp``.
+  Legacy option.  Not used.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: :variable:`CTEST_SCP_COMMAND`
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``SCPCOMMAND``
@@ -1160,8 +1156,7 @@ Configuration settings include:
     initialized by the :command:`site_name` command
 
 ``TriggerSite``
-  Legacy option to support older dashboard server implementations.
-  Not used when ``IsCDash`` is true.
+  Legacy option.  Not used.
 
   * `CTest Script`_ variable: :variable:`CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE`
   * :module:`CTest` module variable: ``TRIGGER_SITE`` if set,
diff --git a/Help/release/dev/submit-method.rst b/Help/release/dev/submit-method.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..38f0b92
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/release/dev/submit-method.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+submit-method
+-------------
+
+* CTest no longer supports submissions via ``ftp``, ``scp``, ``cp``, and
+  ``xmlrpc``.  CDash is the only maintained testing dashboard for CTest,
+  and it only supports submissions over ``http`` and ``https``.
diff --git a/Help/variable/CTEST_SCP_COMMAND.rst b/Help/variable/CTEST_SCP_COMMAND.rst
index 0f128b1..19ea8b3 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CTEST_SCP_COMMAND.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CTEST_SCP_COMMAND.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 CTEST_SCP_COMMAND
 -----------------
 
-Specify the CTest ``SCPCommand`` setting
-in a :manual:`ctest(1)` dashboard client script.
+Legacy option.  Not used.
diff --git a/Help/variable/CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE.rst b/Help/variable/CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE.rst
index de92428..a50e405 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE.rst
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 CTEST_TRIGGER_SITE
 ------------------
 
-Specify the CTest ``TriggerSite`` setting
-in a :manual:`ctest(1)` dashboard client script.
+Legacy option.  Not used.