[CMake] Changes from 2.4.8 to 2.6.4

Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Tue Aug 17 16:58:08 EDT 2010


Hi,

On Tuesday 17 August 2010, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> I'm contemplating updating the version of cmake in EPEL[1] 5 from 2.4.8 to
> 2.6.4 

Why not go directly to 2.8.2 ?
I think there are no known regressions.

> and was wondering if there were any particular gotchas to be expected
> from this move.  Thanks!

No, shouldn't.
Projects which define their minimum required cmake version should also in 
newer cmake versions get the exact same behaviour as in the version they 
require, thanks to the cmake policy system.

Alex


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