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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-08-18 15:40:19 (GMT)
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Help: Document cmake_minimum_required deprecation of old versions
Document the deprecation warnings added by commit 5845c218d7 (Deprecate compatibility with CMake versions older than 2.8.12, 2020-06-12, v3.19.0-rc1~629^2) and commit 3a4791548d (Deprecate compatibility with CMake versions older than 3.5, 2023-02-09, v3.27.0-rc1~508^2). Fixes: #25196
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-rw-r--r--Help/command/DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt15
-rw-r--r--Help/command/cmake_minimum_required.rst2
-rw-r--r--Help/command/cmake_policy.rst2
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt b/Help/command/DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7c68260
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Help/command/DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+.. versionchanged:: 3.27
+
+ Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 3.5 is deprecated.
+ Calls to :command:`cmake_minimum_required(VERSION)` or
+ :command:`cmake_policy(VERSION)` that do not specify at least
+ 3.5 as their policy version (optionally via ``...<max>``)
+ will produce a deprecation warning in CMake 3.27 and above.
+
+.. versionchanged:: 3.19
+
+ Compatibility with versions of CMake older than 2.8.12 is deprecated.
+ Calls to :command:`cmake_minimum_required(VERSION)` or
+ :command:`cmake_policy(VERSION)` that do not specify at least
+ 2.8.12 as their policy version (optionally via ``...<max>``)
+ will produce a deprecation warning in CMake 3.19 and above.
diff --git a/Help/command/cmake_minimum_required.rst b/Help/command/cmake_minimum_required.rst
index 031bd56..de2c8f3 100644
--- a/Help/command/cmake_minimum_required.rst
+++ b/Help/command/cmake_minimum_required.rst
@@ -80,6 +80,8 @@ invokes
which enables compatibility features for CMake 2.4 and lower.
+.. include:: DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt
+
See Also
^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst
index cde74a7..d7880bc 100644
--- a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst
+++ b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ version and tells newer CMake versions to warn about their new policies.
Note that the :command:`cmake_minimum_required(VERSION)`
command implicitly calls ``cmake_policy(VERSION)`` too.
+.. include:: DEPRECATED_POLICY_VERSIONS.txt
+
Setting Policies Explicitly
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^