[Bf-committers] CMake minimum version increased to 3.0

[Stephen Kelly]

On 11/09/2015 09:17 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On 11/09/2015 05:04 PM, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> It turns out Ubuntu 14.10 still users CMake 2.8, so better not break
>> building for one year old distros,
> Yesterday I was a user of Ubuntu 15.04 and I could not build blender.
> blender depends on openexr 2.2 which only appears in 15.10:
>
>  http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openexr
>
> So, already you can't build blender on an ubuntu release which was 'the
> most recent ubuntu release' 3 weeks ago!
>
> You need to either upgrade to 15.10 (that's what I did), or install the
> new version of openexr some other way on 15.04.
>
> I don't see why cmake should be handled particularly differently.

Eep, I should clarify with:

 but if that's the way it is, I'll find something else to do in blender
instead of buildsystem stuff :).

Thanks,

Steve.