Thanks, Seth.
Makes sense. I forgot companies had a paid support option with KiCad. I'll
keep that in mind and upstream the information in case I can ever convince
a company I work for to use KiCad. Usually they use Altium.
For myself on personal projects, I'll just have to keep my Ubuntu version
Hi Gabriel-
The support periods listed on the kicad.org website are for the free builds
provided and maintained at no cost to the end user. We set limits here to
best utilize our available developer resources. Maintaining software for
out of date operating systems is time consuming and difficult
Also,
If you're wondering how prevalent Ubuntu is in industry, I can't say
exactly, but I'll say this: for software development on self-driving cars,
both of the last 2 companies I've worked at, each with around 2000
employees, have used Ubuntu as their primary workstations and build
systems. The
Seth,
You/KiCad might consider supporting Ubuntu for the full 5 year duration
that LTS releases are supported by Ubuntu. On my home machines, for
instance, I run Ubuntu 20.04 right now. On my work machines, however, I run
Ubuntu 18.04 right now because the cost of upgrading a distro is so
signific
Hi Seth,
Yes, but the build is failing at compile time for code that is not in
boost 1.59 or earlier. The boost version should have been bumped to the
version of boost that includes the missing code (I don't know which
version that is). This way the failure will occur during configuration
so it
Hi,
> Jean-Samuel, you may be able to use the mhier PPA[2] as the source
> for newer Boost versions that will allow KiCad on older Ubuntus.
Ok, I'll try that to see if it's possible.
Anyway what is the minimum version number required for boost ? Because
as I see on kicad/INSTALL.txt it's 1.59 (i
Hi Wayne,
>From the page you linked, 18.04 is not a supported system and has never
been supported for v6. We had decided some time ago that we would support
Ubuntu LTS versions for 1 year after the release of the next LTS [1].
Jean-Samuel, you may be able to use the mhier PPA[2] as the source fo
It looks like someone back ported some random number generator fixes
from master that are not available in boost 1.56 which is the minimum
version in the 6.0 branch. We should address this since 18.04 LTS is a
supported system[1].
[1]:https://www.kicad.org/help/system-requirements/
On 5/9/22 4:
Hi,
As I see, since one of those commits:
891c919c239223ef601284a8f166d0f229f6b030
0ea7dabc1271dbc77b8d5764e4eecbeba85903d6
e1cd74dd78031b002737a79ddffcf3489d74105c
4d8297a1f6f18d59cb38361b88a959d7af062480
KiCad is unable to build on Ubuntu 18.04. I guess it's a boost version
issue (Boost is 1.65
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