Davis E. King

I bet they totally aren't ABI compatible. > What we don't want is for dlib to become a dependency manager tool. Right, users constantly want dlib to do this for...

Any kind of read on first use stuff requires global variables though and singletons. Which is fraught with problems though. I know it can be done, but the odds of...

Yeah, we will update eventually. We are on cmake 3.8 right now and that's a feature only in 3.17 or newer. Lots of dlib users update their tooling slowly, so...

Yeah if it can just branch on cmake version without being a big mess that would be cool. I personally have newer cmake on my system. Maybe we could start...

Uh, yeah, alright. I've come around. It's not like people have to pull the latest dlib if they are on an old OS anyway and it would be real convenient...

Well, I mean, is it really all in that patch? Seems like you are saying it's not if it takes time? :) On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 11:59 PM...

Yeah. I think I'm fine with switching the required version of cmake to a higher version. So if there is some good stuff to be had by doing that then...

Yeah I noticed this a bit ago but didn't figure it out when I looked. Need to look again though and figure it out. Although maybe you will figure it...

Yeah hard to say, bugs can be anywhere and you never know until after the fact :shrug: :D

Na everyone thinks that from time to time. Don't sweat it :)