On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 4:04 AM, Alan W. Irwin <alan.w.irwin1...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 2018-07-01 08:12+1000 Craig Scott wrote:
>
> Older CMake versions
>> will see the extra dots as being version component separators and will end
>> up effectively ignoring the max part.
>>
>
> This explanation of how "..." will be interpreted by older CMake
> versions makes sense, but it wasn't obvious to me without that
> explanation.  And I suspect other build-system developers/maintainers
> would also benefit from the explanation.  Therefore, please explicitly
> include the above explanation in the latest documentation of both the
> cmake_minimum_required and cmake_policy commands.
>

I've updated the merge request to incorporate this feedback.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/2180

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