Re: CMake 3.16

[David Chisnall]

On 16/05/2020 03:52, Ivan Vučica wrote:
> Current Debian stable, from July 2019, has 3.13. Debian testing,
> eventually becoming stable, has a 3.16 version in it.
>
> Therefore, I can easily use 3.16 myself.
>
> I know you're asking about/our/  /development/  machines, but for
> end-users, I'd say most Ubuntu users will still be on 18.04 LTS, some
> might be on 16.04 LTS (given 5yr support didn't run out yet). It would
> probably be nice to wait at least a bit before nuking support for
> 18.04 and its derivatives. And I suppose CentOS that Richard mentioned
> is also important to keep in mind?
>
> If you want to move to it sooner rather than later, how about an
> alternative deprecated CMakeLists.txt for older systems, one which
> gets phased out in ~1.5-2y or so?

This isn't urgent.  It will make the build system more maintainable, but 
the build system doesn't change very much so it isn't a huge burden to 
maintain the current version for a while.  If 1.5-2 years gives everyone 
enough time to update, then I'll look at this again then.

David