<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfMessage"><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Aug 15, 2024, at 9:30 PM, Regina Obe <lr@pcorp.us> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div>I assume that GEOS there is meant to be GDAL?<br>What does upgrading CMake buy us.<br><br>That ticket you reference was fixed a different way.<br><br>I'm still hesitant to up the CMake version just for the sake of upping the CMake version especially so late in the cycle of GEOS 3.13 development.<br>If we had done this early own, I would not have an issue.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Waiting for another major release means waiting another year to bump this CMake version dependency floor which is already five years old. The practical impact of such a change is quite minor as every significant packaging system and version that's expecting to use GEOS 3.13 has long since moved on. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>a) GEOS has no dependencies, so is something people can easily compile themselves unless we go around upping version requirements on them<br>b) GEOS is a much simpler project than GDAL and PROJ so has fewer needs<br>c) Granted I am less concerned about Ubuntu 20.04 and Debian 10 now that Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, Debian 11 and Debian 12 are out.<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>IMO our C++ standard floor matters a lot more on the topic of people easily compiling themselves on older platforms than the CMake version floor. It was Ubuntu 18.04 and Debian 10 that still had CMake 3.13. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div>But I want to know what goodies we are going to get out of upgrading CMake.</div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>The opportunity to go back and throw out CMake configuration that branches based on really old version stuff like <a href="https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/main/CMakeLists.txt#L59">https://github.com/libgeos/geos/blob/main/CMakeLists.txt#L59</a> This means less junk that can rot. </div><div><br></div><br></body></html>