[CMake] Ubuntu package versioning

[Alexander G. Riccio]

Uggh, it's an LTS thing? Yeah, well then it's my fault entirely. Maybe I
shouldn't've gone for the LTS install.

And yeah, I've already installed the most recent version.

On Dec 18, 2017 10:39 PM, "Alan W. Irwin" <irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:

> On 2017-12-18 19:14-0500 <Alexander G. Riccio> wrote:
>
> I'm not sure who maintains the Ubuntu cmake package, but I *just* installed
>> it, and cmake --version reported 3.5.1... a little bit out of date.
>>
>
> If you look at
> <https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=cmake&searchon=
> names&suite=all&section=all>
> the various Ubuntu distribution versions called xenial, zesty, artful, and
> bionic provide respectively CMake versions 3.5.1, 3.7.2, 3.9.1, and
> 3.9.5.  And similar situations occur for all other Linux distros.
>
> So if you upgrade to a later Ubuntu version you will automatically get
> access to a later CMake version. But such upgrades are non-trivial so a
> compromise that allows you to delay doing such an upgrade for a while
> would be to build and use a newer version of CMake yourself.
>
> Alan
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