[vtk-developers] Proposal to bump CMake minimum version to 2.8.8

[Utkarsh Ayachit]

+1. This will be a huge help for ParaView.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
<marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Marcus D. Hanwell
> <marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I propose that we bump our CMake minimum version to from 2.8.5 to
>> 2.8.8 (going from a version released in July 2011 to one released in
>> April 2012). My main motivation is so that we can add private
>> dependencies to modules using the public/private interface library
>> API, and make use of per-target include directories. There are several
>> other minor feature improvements and additions, and with 6.0 just
>> released we have approximately half a year until distributions will
>> begin packaging this version.
>>
>> Private dependencies would let us clearly define what is an interface
>> library, and what is limited to implementation and does not need to be
>> added to link lines for dependent libraries (when building shared at
>> least). This would also allow us to reduce the number of include
>> directories to those in the current private set and the accumulated
>> public set and should improve compilation speed.
>>
>> I think most of our dashboards already have 2.8.8 as other projects
>> already require this or later, and it would allow us to simplify some
>> of our CMake code that was condiitionally using some of these new
>> features.
>>
> To add, the oldest we currently test/verify on the dashboards is
> 2.8.7, and several of those machines would need to be updated to at
> least 2.8.8.
>
> Marcus
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