The specific goal of this change is to get rid of separate code paths
for older and newer Xcode versions.
The version 8.2 is picked since it's the latest version which runs on
macOS 10.11 (which is our current deployment target). If that turns
out too new for some reason the alternative would be to require Xcode
version 5.
The main CMakeLists already requires CMake 3.5, so there is no point of
requiring "newer" CMake on macOS.
This was a code from a while back where CMake 3 was not required on all
platforms.
This is in preparation of an the upcoming fix where we need to use a Metal
layer to avoid performance issue when drawing with OpenGL. Note that we already
only officially support 10.12+, the difference with this change is that Blender
will not start at all on 10.9 and 10.10.
This is in preparation of upgrading our library dependencies, some of which
need C++11. We already use C++11 in blender2.8 and for Windows and macOS, so
this just affects Linux.
On many distributions this will not require any changes, on some
install_deps.sh will need to be run again to rebuild libraries.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D3568
This removes a bunch of code that is no longer needed, and running
"make update" will now automatically download the new libraries.
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2861
It has been deprecated since at least macOS 10.9 and fully removed in 10.12.
I am unsure if we should remove it only in 2.8. But you cannot build blender with it supported when using a modern xcode version anyway so I would tend towards just removing it also for 2.79 if that ever happens.
Reviewers: mont29, dfelinto, juicyfruit, brecht
Reviewed By: mont29, brecht
Subscribers: Blendify, brecht
Maniphest Tasks: T52807
Differential Revision: https://developer.blender.org/D2333
