Hi, I would like to consult community members, especially those who need to deal with old versions of Linux distributions, about the possibility of requiring CMake 2.8 instead of 2.6.
Simply put, it is possible to support CMake 2.6, but it requires some time and effort to actually ensure backwards compatibility. The fact is that if we never really generate makefiles with 2.6 it might already be broken without any of us knowing about it. I've been told that CMake 2.6 is ancient anyway, and that 2.8 should be in most distributions by now. Certain features are introduced in very recent versions of CMake like 2.8.9, so we can't make it a requirement. This is an exceptional case for the monolithic build option, and the scripts only enable this feature if CMake 2.8.9 and over is detected. Installing a recent version of CMake from the prebuilt binaries is actually very easy. However, there are many differences in between 2.6 and 2.8 and I don't have much time to ensure proper backwards compatibility like I could ensure backwards compatibility with the monolithic build option. So my question is, I've always assumed pushing the minimum cmake version to 2.8 might cause some issues for some people with old, distros, but is it really the case? For the few exceptional cases left, a manual installation of cmake would be required, which is not even hard. Would there be any objections to requiring cmake 2.8 from now on? If so, please make yourself known, otherwise I will assume it's ok and will go on with 2.8 as a minimum requirement. Cheers, - Marc-Andre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ How fast is your code? 3 out of 4 devs don\\\'t know how their code performs in production. Find out how slow your code is with AppDynamics Lite. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;262219672;13503038;z? http://info.appdynamics.com/FreeJavaPerformanceDownload.html _______________________________________________ Freerdp-devel mailing list Freerdp-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freerdp-devel
