On Wednesday 13 November 2024 07:01:39 Pacific Standard Time Alexandru Croitor via Development wrote: > > Debian stable is debian 12. It ships with 3.25. > > > >> Is it unreasonable to ask to install cmake from one of those official > >> repos?> > > Backports are not part of stable, so yes, I would consider that is > > unreasonable. > Do you consider it unreasonable due to backports being 'backports', so not > 'stable', thus you are completely against installing any software from > there? > > Or is it more specific that you think that the backports-provided cmake will > not be stable enough for building software?
3.25 will be just under two years old when we release Qt 6.9. That's about borderline acceptable. On one hand, I am not opposed to requiring recent software to build even more recent software. On the other, 2 years is a bit short. I think it would be an acceptable, short-term pain though. But is there any chance of lowering the requirement to 3.25 instead? BTW, for anyone looking at using "old distros" to compile software that shall work everywhere: Debian stable and Debian oldstable are *too* new. Their glibc versions are respectively 2.36 and 2.31. Your best bet for "old distro" right now is RHEL/CentOS/Rockylinux 8, which comes with glibc 2.28 but CMake 3.26.5, though you'll need to upgrade its GCC from 8.5. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Principal Engineer - Intel DCAI Platform & System Engineering
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