Re: CMake 4

On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 12:12:06 -0600
Roland Hughes via Foxgui-users <[email protected]> wrote:

>On 1/2/2026 11:05 AM, Sander Jansen wrote:
>> I still don't get it. Assuming you have 3.27, why can't you set the 
>> minimum required version in FOX to 3.23?
>>  
>> > But, if you want to still support Ubuntu 18.04 (Some development   
>> locked there) your min needs to be 3.10
>>
>> I don't see the point. If you insist on running a 7 year old OS for 
>> stability reasons, why would you want the latest version of a library. 
>> Just download 1.6 or whatever was released 7 years ago. Also there 
>> seems to be some sort of double standard, YES on downloading the 
>> bleeding edge of FOX and NO on downloading the latest cmake.  
>
>Well, this goes back to my original chiming in and the fact I live in a 
>different world.
>
>*What is the oldest OS you are looking to support with this release?*

There's no need for "bleeding edge" cmake to get its benefits; my VC++
were also not "bleeding edge", for same reason: we don't have the assumption 
that everyone is at the bleeding edge, some stragglers will be behind, some
will the in the middle and a few will be at the latest.

FYI, I'm shooting for cmake 3.xx, where xx probably >16. 

The argument "just upgrade" works for us at home, but not for people that
are beholden slow-moving s/w update approval process that I.T. departments
may have.




    					-- JVZ



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