[CMake] CMake minimum required version

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 25 August 2012, Russell Wallace wrote:
> CMake asks me to specify a minimum required version. I'm writing a
> mostly fairly vanilla C++ program, primary target platforms are Linux
> and Windows, dependencies on Boost and GMP, using the glob facility,
> any idea what I should specify as the minimum version? Or is the
> recommendation to reason along the lines of, 2.8 is what I happen to
> have installed, so that's the version I know my program works with
> since I'm testing with it, so specify that version?

That's the safe bet.

If you want to support some lower version, you can download and install that 
lower version from http://www.cmake.org/files/  and use that.

Alex