Hi packagers, I recently proposed to formalize that Plasma depends on CMake 3.16. The reasoning is to 1) make the requirements consistent across Plasma repos and 2) enable the use of modern CMake features. If accpected this can act as a precedent for other non-frameworks KDE software.
Is there any distro that does not ship at least CMake 3.16 interested in shipping future Plasma releases? Cheers Nico -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Consistent CMake requirements in Plasma Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2021 19:32:36 +0100 From: Nicolas Fella <nicolas.fe...@gmx.de> Reply-To: plasma-devel@kde.org To: plasma-devel@kde.org Hi, while I was doing some cmake cleanup in Plasma I noticed that our stated minimum cmake versions are both somewhat inconsistent and super old. Most Plasma projects state that either 2.8 (released in 2009) or 3.0 (released in 2014) are the minimum. That's obviously unrealistic. Newer cmake versions offer some nice stuff such as imported targets for common libs (e.g. used in https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336). For the sake of consistency I propose that we standardize Plasma on something recent-ish. My candidate for this would be cmake 3.16. It's the version shipped by Ubuntu 20.04 and thus Neon. This would exclude Debian stable which ships 3.13 (which does not have the feature relevant for https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336). Thoughts? Cheers Nico
