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<p>Hi packagers,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Is there any distro that does not ship at least CMake 3.16
interested in shipping future Plasma releases?</p>
<p>Cheers<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-forward-container">Nico<br>
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Hi,<br>
<br>
while I was doing some cmake cleanup in Plasma I noticed that our
stated<br>
minimum cmake versions are both somewhat inconsistent and super
old.<br>
Most Plasma projects state that either 2.8 (released in 2009) or
3.0<br>
(released in 2014) are the minimum. That's obviously unrealistic.<br>
<br>
Newer cmake versions offer some nice stuff such as imported
targets for<br>
common libs (e.g. used in<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336</a>). For<br>
the sake of consistency I propose that we standardize Plasma on<br>
something recent-ish.<br>
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My candidate for this would be cmake 3.16. It's the version
shipped by<br>
Ubuntu 20.04 and thus Neon. This would exclude Debian stable which
ships<br>
3.13 (which does not have the feature relevant for<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336">https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/merge_requests/336</a>).<br>
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Thoughts?<br>
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Cheers<br>
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Nico<br>
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