[Trilinos-Users] [Trilinos-Framework] [EXTERNAL] [Trilinos-developers] Upgrade minimum CMake version from 2.8.11 to 3.3.2?

[Bartlett, Roscoe A]

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> From: Trilinos-Users [mailto:trilinos-users-bounces at trilinos.org] On Behalf Of
> CHEVALIER Cedric
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> Subject: Re: [Trilinos-Users] [Trilinos-Framework] [EXTERNAL] [Trilinos-
> developers] Upgrade minimum CMake version from 2.8.11 to 3.3.2?
> 
> By the way, if you are switching to cmake 3+, do you have any plan to use
> "modern cmake" features ?
> For a code with a lot of external dependencies it can really be a major progress !
> 
> https://rix0r.nl/blog/2015/08/13/cmake-guide/
> http://fr.slideshare.net/DanielPfeifer1/cmake-48475415

Being able to use some newer CMake features would be one of the goals.  This could be used to make the following refactoring easier:

    https://github.com/TriBITSPub/TriBITS/issues/63

But if we don't require a newer CMake, then this will not be possible.

-Ross