[cmake-developers] Drop support for older Xcode versions?

[Davy Durham]

I'll say that in my line of work, we still have to support OS X 10.6 
(just dropped 10.5 support) .. And we're doing this at Apple's own 
request/demand!  It's not fun.  I've had to hack tools around to get 
somewhat newer tool chains to continue to work, but it's been /great/ 
that cmake hasn't been an obstacle in this endeavour.





On 02/08/2016 11:48 PM, Tim Blechmann wrote:
>>> Given Apple's encouragement of developers to always update...
>> They certainly do, as Eric described.  However, just like everyone
>> else, Apple often ships regressions in Xcode and it's sometimes vital
>> to be able to use older versions.  Similarly, if you want to deploy
>> an app to an older OS, it's very useful to be able to build-run-debug
>> on that OS, and since the newest Xcodes only run on the newest OSes,
>> one needs an older Xcode to test/debug on older OSes.
> if a project relies on an old xcode version, does it need to use the
> most up-to-date cmake? also, there are always make/ninja generators ...
>
>

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