Hi, Ubuntu 14.04 is "stuck" with CMake 2.8. It's a LTS so they won't upgrade their CMake. And it's still quite inside our 5 year support goal. What exactly do we need from CMake 3.x? If we really need CMake 3.0, can we at least update install_deps.sh to handle cmake as well?
Regards, Dalai -- blendernetwork.org/dalai-felinto www.dalaifelinto.com 2017-08-20 17:02 GMT+02:00 Jörg Müller <[email protected]>: > Hi everyone, > > a discussion about our cmake version has started after I merged audaspace > into blender2.8. Audaspace requires cmake 3.0 as opposed to blender's main > cmake file which so far requires cmake 2.8. > > Now since a version bump has been in discussion already a year ago according > to Campbell, we think this is a good time to actually do it. Last time it > was postponed because Debian was not ready. So now I had a look at the > current versions of cmake in the major distributions [1]: > > ubuntu (17.04) - 3.7.2 > ubuntu LTS (16.04) - 3.5.1 > debian (stable) - 3.7.2 > opensuse (42.3) - 3.5.2 > fedora (F26) - 3.8.2 > pclinuxos - 3.7.2 > centos (6) - 2.8.12 (3.6.1 in EPEL) > arch - 3.8.2 > mageia (6) - 3.7.2 > slackware (14.2) - 3.5.2 > gentoo - 3.7.2 > > According to this list, pretty much everyone should be able to get at least > cmake 3.5 running. Therefore, I bumped the cmake version to 3.5 which allows > us to use newer cmake features now. > > Cheers, > Jörg > > [1] https://pkgs.org/download/cmake > > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
