Re: WIP: About CMake v2

On 08/18/2016 09:52 PM, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Stefan Kaltenbrunner wrote:
>> On 08/18/2016 09:30 PM, Christian Convey wrote:
> 
>>> Yury: Would it make sense to add a call to "cmake_minimum_required" in
>>> one or more of your CMakeLists.txt files?
>>
>> it would make sense nevertheless but I dont think that 2.8.11 is old
>> enough - looking at the release information and the feature compatibily
>> matrix it would seems we should more aim at something like 2.8.0 or 2.8.3...
> 
> Last year I checked versions installable in Debian:
> https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/20150829213631.GI2912@alvherre.pgsql
> From that I would say that the maximum minimum is 2.8.2.  Not sure if
> there's any platform where 2.8.0 (released in 2009) or older would be
> necessary.

well we have for example a NetBSD 5.1 boxe (coypu) on the buildfarm that
have a software stack that is basically 2008/2009ish...
So 2.8.0-2.8.3 seems like a realistic target to me still



Stefan