Switch default Ninja minimal version to a reasonable value #1897
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The previous value (3.5.1) doesn't make much sense and it being that broke systems like FreeBSD which didn't have a tool download link.
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Wow, 8 year old copy pasto (3.5.1 is the minimal git version) from e6442b0
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Which means that this code is probably unused and should be removed. |
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It was unused because most platforms have a different value filled in from |
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The previous value (3.5.1) doesn't make much sense and it being that broke systems like FreeBSD which didn't have a tool download link.
This also comes with a question, while this solves the problem for now, what would be a more reasonable solution to keep the minimum versions in sync for all those platforms (like RISC-V Linux, *BSD, Solaris and more) that will most probably never have all download links added, should there a be separate JSON file listing minimal versions, should all those platforms get spoofed to x64 Linux for version checks or maybe something entirely else.