[llvm-dev] RFC: Updating to CMake 3.15.0

[Neil Nelson via llvm-dev]

Here is how I would make the argument for the latest version of cmake.

The latest version of cmake addresses a number issues we face in 
building LLVM including the following.

[list the justifications]

We realize this using of the latest versions of external software goes 
outside our usual method, but in this case the cmake software will not 
be folded into the resulting LLVM software release and only in the 
building of the release. Whatever issues a new cmake may present in the 
build will be identified during testing in that the nature of cmake 
should easily allow our standard testing to know if it is working 
properly or not.

For those building LLVM for standard OS release versions such as the 
Ubuntu LTS versions seen on our prepared build page, it is expected that 
those installations are dedicated to the building of LLVM and not for 
any other production purpose so that installing the recent version of 
cmake will not affect their other efforts if some problem with this 
latest cmake version arises.

Neil Nelson

On 11/4/19 7:33 AM, Robinson, Paul wrote:
> However I think you are creating a false dichotomy. I have no real
> insight into Ubuntu's methodology, but as a user, what I observe
> is that Ubuntu LTS is NOT a collection of the most recent stable
> well-tested versions of all components, kept up-to-date; instead,
> it is a snapshot of stable, well-tested versions of all components,
> which Ubuntu then commits to maintaining for N years. A given LTS
> releases maintenance updates only, not new features.
>
> And it is certainly not the case that every version of every
> component after an Ubuntu LTS is a buggy, bleeding-edge untested
> hacked-up mess.  Ubuntu LTS chooses to stick with certain versions,
> not because later versions are awful, but because picking up new
> versions is not their goal.
>
> So, when we talk about raising our minimum required CMake version,
> it is not to take CMake bleeding-edge HEAD and have everyone build
> their own; it is to take a more recent formal release of CMake.
> Now, the CMake people might not conveniently package binaries for
> everyone's environment, which might mean some people need to pull
> a release's source package and build it themselves; this is the
> nature of open-source.
> --paulr
>
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