One thing to consider here. Visual Studio is now shipping CMake, its also getting updated for patches of a given version of VS, and is not the same from VS 2019 or VS 2017
I know of a couple of teams that are using the VS version of CMake on windows to alleviate the need for another install/setup app Scott -----Original Message----- From: Development <development-boun...@qt-project.org> On Behalf Of Thiago Macieira Sent: Wednesday, May 5, 2021 14:28 To: development@qt-project.org Subject: Re: [Development] Raising minimum CMake version to 3.16 for Qt6 On Wednesday, 5 May 2021 13:52:52 PDT Kyle Edwards via Development wrote: > CMake upstream here. We recommend always using the very latest patch > version of CMake, since it is backwards compatible and can > (theoretically, bugs notwithstanding) build CMake projects written for > any earlier version of CMake. You are correct that upgrading CMake is > generally easy, though it admittedly may not be feasible if you insist > on sticking with the version provided by the distro (though we do > provide Ubuntu .deb builds of the latest version.) Hello Kyle Always using the latest is a good recommendation. The question is the minimum we can reasonably require the users to have installed. Upgrading is easy, but it's not as way as "$PKGCOMMAND install cmake" (where PKGCOMMAND is apt-get, zypper, dnf, yum, opkg, whatever), so requiring a version higher than the one users are likely to have creates a barrier for entry. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel DPG Cloud Engineering _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development _______________________________________________ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/development
