[CMake] Ubuntu package versioning

[Rashad Kanavath]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 4:45 AM, Raymond Wan <rwan.work at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Alexander,
>
> On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 11:39 AM, 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 a little bit out of date.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.
>
>
> In addition to what Alan said, another alternative to compiling it
> yourself is to install Anaconda into your home directory and then to
> install cmake from that.  For example, you can see here what is
> available to you:  https://anaconda.org/search?q=cmake


This seems too much to me. Seriously, Anaconda for binary package of cmake ?
I have been using cmake's own binary packages for a long time. Never had
once an issue with them?
You get them for those three OSes(Linux, macx, windows)


>
> Ray
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Regards,
   Rashad
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