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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2016-10-01 08:20:39 -0400
committerCMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com>2016-10-01 08:20:39 -0400
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Merge topic 'doc-compilers-dropped'
27c51865 Help: Add release note about compilers that no longer build CMake itself
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+---------------------
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+* Support for building CMake itself with some compilers was dropped:
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+ * Visual Studio 7.1 and 2005 -- superseded by VS 2008 and above
+ * MinGW.org mingw32 -- superseded by MSYS2 mingw32 and mingw64
+
+ CMake still supports generating build systems for other projects using
+ these compilers.