[Bf-committers] CMake minimum version increased to 3.0

[Campbell Barton]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 3:44 AM, Sybren A. Stüvel <sybren at stuvel.eu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 03:04:53AM +1100, Campbell Barton wrote:
>> It turns out Ubuntu 14.10 still users CMake 2.8, so better not break
>> building for one year old distros,
>
> If you'd argued support for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS I would have understood,
> but why should we support a version of Ubuntu that's already past its
> end of life?

the issue isn't about Ubuntu 14.10 specifically, its mainly that
someone can have a year-old installation which wouldn't be able to
build Blender (without manually getting CMake at least).