[geos-devel] 3.10.0rc1 (static)

[Regina Obe]

> 
> Paul Ramsey <pramsey at cleverelephant.ca> writes:
> 
> > OK, this is coming directly out of
> > https://trac.osgeo.org/geos/ticket/1103
> >
> > If I go back to using an "OBJECT" library in building ryu, then it
> > gets bundled right up into libgeos.a where we want it, and your link
> > line is nice and simple again. That implies a minimum cmake of 3.13,
> > whcih is 3+ years old now. My macports gives me 3.21 by default. I
> > dunno, we backed out of the OBJECT library to STATIC to keep the cmake
> > requirement low, but that implies generating two static libs and
> > sticking them both on the link line.
> >
> > I'm inclined to bias towards a newer cmake and still generating one
static
> library.
> 
> I'm usually in the camp of not wanting to have aggressive dependency
> requirements, so having a look and opining.
> 
> pkgsrc has 3.21.2 now (and it looks like 3.21.3 just came out).
> 
> 3.13.0 was released on 2018-11-20.  That's almost 5 years ago, and I
therefore
> think it's entirely reasonable to require it if it makes anything even a
little bit
> better.
[Regina Obe] 
FWIW I'm fine with upping the requirement too.  I'm running with cmake 3.18
at moment but since I just download it from cmake website, I can easily
upgrade too if needed.