I see. Are those dates when the respective OS support finishes or when we stop supporting them? I was under the impression it is the former (although it is not fully clear) in which case that date is wrong.
Thanks, Diego On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:16, Ian McInerney <ian.s.mciner...@ieee.org> wrote: > The listing I used when looking at whether our supported OS's had Boost > 1.59 were the dates given here: > http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/#_gnulinux. On that page, > it says that our support for 16.04 ended in April. > > -Ian > > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:03 PM Diego Herranz < > diegoherr...@diegoherranz.com> wrote: > >> I wasn't getting any nightly package update lately and checking [1] I've >> just noticed this boost bump has left Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) out. >> Ubuntu 16.04 will be supported until April 2021 [2]. >> >> Was this overlooked when checking distros? Or was it a deliberate >> decision? Is there anything that can be done? >> I've been planning to move to a newer Ubuntu LTS release for some time >> but didn't really have the need while it is supported (everything stable >> and working very well). >> I guess there may be more people in a situation similar to mine. >> >> Cheers, >> Diego >> >> [1] https://launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-dev-nightly >> [2] >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Table_of_versions >> >> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 19:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambau...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> 10/2/2019 8:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote: >>> > On 9/27/19 12:20 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote: >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> Am 26.09.19 um 22:26 schrieb Ian McInerney: >>> >>> Ping. Is there any opposition to bumping the minimum Boost version to >>> >>> 1.59? >>> >> I still see no technical need to increase the minimal version for >>> Boost. >>> >> >>> > >>> > The boost version used in Debian old stable is 1.62. I think 1.59 is a >>> > pretty safe bet at this point for the development version. For the 5.1 >>> > branch, we should keep the current version unless we are planning to >>> > back port any of the testing features which were the primary reason for >>> > the version bump request. I will make the change as soon as I get a >>> > chance, we can always revert it if it causes too much grief. >>> > >>> > Cheers, >>> > >>> > Wayne >>> > >>> >>> I bumped the Boost version to 1.59. If this causes any major headaches, >>> I can always revert it. Before we go using any new Boost stuff, please >>> let the dust settle on the version bump change so we don't have to back >>> out a bunch of changes. >>> >>> 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 >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 >> >
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