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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-02-09 14:35:22 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-02-11 11:25:11 (GMT)
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Deprecate compatibility with CMake versions older than 3.5
Issue a deprecation warning on calls to `cmake_minimum_required` or `cmake_policy` that set policies based on versions older than 3.5. Note that the effective policy version includes `...<max>` treatment. Update the check from commit 5845c218d7 (Deprecate compatibility with CMake versions older than 2.8.12, 2020-06-12, v3.19.0-rc1~629^2).
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+deprecate-policy-old
+--------------------
+
+* Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 3.5 is now deprecated
+ and will be removed from a future version. Calls to
+ :command:`cmake_minimum_required` or :command:`cmake_policy` that set
+ the policy version to an older value now issue a deprecation diagnostic.