[MESOS-6350] Raise minimum required cmake version

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.0
• Component/s: cmake
• Labels: mesosphere microsoft tech-debt
• Epic Link: cmake
• Assignee: Andrew Schwartzmeyer
• Reporter: Benjamin Bannier
• Shepherd: Joseph Wu
• Created: 10/Oct/16 13:20
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:27
• Resolved: 03/Sep/17 12:55

Description

We currently require at least cmake-2.8 which had its first point release 2010 and last update 2013. Meanwhile upstream is preparing the release of 3.7.0. While cmake support in Mesos is still experimental we should evaluate how much we can increase the minimal required version so we are not locked into an old version lacking desirable features.

Issue Links

• Blocked: MESOS-7351 CMake < 3.8.0 cannot find VS2017 tools
• blocks: MESOS-5656 Incomplete modelling of 3rdparty dependencies in cmake build
• blocks: MESOS-6794 Properly model header dependencies of cmake build components
• blocks: MESOS-7296 CMake 2.8.10 does not support TIMESTAMP
• blocks: MESOS-7497 Remove CMake anti-pattern of `set(x "${x} ..")`.
• relates to: MESOS-3110 Harden the CMake system-dependency-locating routines