I prefer to support only recent CMake versions and latest CMake policies to keep the PLplot build system as simple and as bug free as possible. For this reason I have recently bumped (see <https://sourceforge.net/p/plplot/plplot/ci/f0610cdf5879ce2d7727f8d865d4523ebc501c78/>) the minimum version of CMake we accept on Linux to 3.6.2, and and we may similarly bump that version and also the minimum version we accept on non-Linux platforms to 3.7.2 later on this year.
This current bump will only affect Linux users of our current git version (and also our next release) on the relatively small number of Linux distributions that do not yet provide CMake-3.6.2 or later. So the number of affected users should be relatively small and decreasing because Linux distributions generally do a good job of keeping up with the latest CMake versions. However, if you are one of these users that is temporarily affected by this issue, you will have to build the latest CMake (currently 3.8.0 which builds PLplot without difficulties) before building the git version of PLplot. So the purpose of this announcement is to warn users about this uncommon possibility. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ Plplot-general mailing list Plplot-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-general
