Update required CMake version to 3.8 #1088
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Most libraries are C++11 and require CMake 3.8 for the CMake feature or depend on libraries that do.
Drop support for earlier CMake versions in the super project to reduce the number of versions to verify.
This comes from my experiments in the tools/cmake repo testing a range of CMake versions.
The list of libraries not supporting CMake < 3.8 keeps on growing so I'd say it doesn't make sense anymore to support that going forward. I'm currently at over 60 libraries that require CMake 3.8, there are others (around a dozen or so) that require even higher versions.
(Incomplete) list of libraries incompatible with CMake 3.7:
What do you say @pdimov ?