[Piglit] [PATCH 5/8] cmake: Increase minimum version from 2.6 to 2.8.

[Ken Phillis Jr]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:42 PM, Dylan Baker <baker.dylan.c at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > On Tuesday, October 01, 2013 05:13:52 PM Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
> >> The use of cmake 2.8 just happens to coincide with requiring slightly
> newer
> >> tools... see these release announcements...
> >> kitware - news: cmake 2.8.11 released ( May 22, 2013 )
> >> http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/464?siteid=9
> >> kitware - news: cmake 2.8.0 released ( November 4,2009)
> >> http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/252?siteid=9
> >> kitware - news:  cmake 2.6.4 released ( May 5, 2009 )
> >> http://www.kitware.com/news/home/browse/229?siteid=9
>
> To an on-list review comment you replied off-list with a top quoted
> response?
>

For the first half of the question... I got at three off-list questions
about this commit, so I figured It'd be a good idea to at least give some
background to make things easier. The basic premise is that CMake 2.8 has
received a ton of updates that can will be useful in making cmake easier to
handle. One of the major improvements is the ExternalProject module that
will allow the easy building of external source trees during configuration.
This is extremely useful since it means that some dependencies like the
OpenCL ICD and Waffle can be built and installed dynamically without having
any developer interaction.

As for the second half of the question... I sometimes post responses from a
mobile phone and that makes things a little harder... Also most modern
web-based email providers all use top quotes.
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