[cmake-developers] CPack API redesign

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Aug 12 14:52:53 EDT 2010


On 08/12/2010 02:42 PM, Eric Noulard wrote:
> CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED(VERSION 2.4.5)
> since CMake can bootstrap itself, why requiring such ancient
> version to build CMake itself?

It can bootstrap itself on UNIX-like systems and MSys.  It cannot
bootstrap with most Windows compilers.  We need people that already
have CMake installed to be able to build a new one.

-Brad



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