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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] Building rather than downloading CMake in macosx-setup.sh (was R

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 11:11:48 -0700
On Jan 14, 2012, at 6:40 AM, jmayer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=40498
> 
> User: jmayer
> Date: 2012/01/14 06:40 AM
> 
> Log:
> Optionally build cmake, document why we need xz
> 
> Directory: /trunk/
>  Changes    Path               Action
>  +20 -3     macosx-setup.sh    Modified

So is there a reason to build CMake from source rather than downloading one of the binaries for OS X?