On 10/04/2018 05:02 PM, Tomasz Wlostowski wrote: > On 04/10/18 20:04, Seth Hillbrand wrote: >> Going forward, I think we might look at an official policy of only >> supporting OSs that are actively supported by their originators. That >> would week out some older systems but reduce the testing load. We could >> still provide compatible binaries but with no bug fixes if they are >> system-specific. > > Seth, > > I can't agree more with you. In particular, we should not give any > official support for non-mainstream Linux systems (unless there's a > person responsible for the particular distro in the Kicad team), instead > we could provide a Firefox-style binary package that is unpacked to /opt > and contains all dependencies in the known-to-work versions. Same > applies to really old Windows versions (e.g. pre-7 or pre-XP-SP3). > > Cheers, > Tom >
I don't have a problem with this either. The idea that we should continue to support kicad on operating systems that are no longer supported the organization that created them is silly. Cheers, Wayne _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
