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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

I think this is fine given our manpower limitations.  We may want to
keep copies of the current stable release around for users who don't
want to migrate their projects.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 11/26/2017 8:37 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
> I think I agree, and I think this was Mac dev/packager consensus last
> time this was discussed.  Wikipedia says 10.11 is the oldest supported
> right now, but I can't find any primary source.  Just for the record, I
> think we should lock this in at the start of a stable series.  This
> means whatever oldest version we support for 5.0, we should continue to
> support until 6.0.
> 
> Adam Wolf
> 
> On Nov 26, 2017 7:31 PM, "Simon Wells" <swel024@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:swel024@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     I Think it mainly comes down to, if there is a bug reported on 10.9
>     do we want to be a) trying to sort out why its an issue when we only
>     have newer systems or b) scrambling around trying to find an older
>     install to be able to test the issue and solve it
> 
>     Therefore I think its best to at most only support the oldest
>     version that is still supported by apple at the time 5.0 is released
>     (or at least when the RC is released).
> 
>     It does not stop someone building for an older version of OSX, but
>     if they have issues it is up to them (with the older operating
>     system) to solve them
> 
>     Simon
> 
> 
> 
>>     On 27/11/2017, at 1:41 PM, Adam Wolf
>>     <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>     I'll definitely be keeping the 4.0 server around for at least 6+
>>     months, but the plan is to generate the 5.0 stable releases from a
>>     10.x VM.  We should have a test image after next weekend.  We had
>>     previously discussed using the oldest OS version still getting
>>     security updates, which appears to be 10.11.  I could do anything
>>     from 10.9 on.
>>
>>     Do people think supporting 10.11 and newer is sufficient?
>>
>>     Adam Wolf
>>
>>     On Nov 26, 2017 6:23 PM, "Chris Pavlina" <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx
>>     <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>
>>         With an upcoming 5.0 I'm not sure how necessary it is to
>>         re-release
>>         4.0.7 - I just want to make sure the same mistake doesn't get
>>         made for
>>         5.0...
>>
>>         On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 11:03:48PM +0000, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>>         > 4.0.7-2 seems reasonable if the previous macos version was
>>         4.0.7-1.
>>         >
>>         > On 11/26/2017 05:25 PM, Adam Wolf wrote:
>>         > > 1) I'll take a look at the script, but I suspect Nick is
>>         correct.
>>         > >
>>         > > 2) What version number should I release this 4.0.7 as?
>>         4.0.7-2?
>>         > >
>>         > > Adam Wolf
>>         > >
>>         > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 3:35 PM, Nick Østergaard
>>         <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>>         > >> It is because of what happened in:
>>         > >> [Kicad-developers] Yet another 4.0.7 release bug.
>>         > >>
>>         https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg30192.html
>>         <https://lists.launchpad.net/kicad-developers/msg30192.html>
>>         > >>
>>         > >> I suspect that the script for the OSX build did not
>>         consider that tags could
>>         > >> move. Which I think could happen like this:
>>         > >>
>>         > >> A tag will get pulled down when you pull normally. But if
>>         it changes
>>         > >> upstream you need to fetch with the --tags option
>>         > >> to sync it.
>>         > >>
>>         > >> 2017-11-26 20:12 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina
>>         <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>>:
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> Okay people, wtf happened here.
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> Helping someone on IRC figure out a PDF export bug on
>>         4.0.7, when I
>>         > >>> realized this:
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> https://misc.c4757p.com/pastes/0AOyojEiEE0V.txt
>>         <https://misc.c4757p.com/pastes/0AOyojEiEE0V.txt>
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> ^ "Tag stable release" is commit 631f6d5, on July 14.
>>         The ACTUAL 4.0.7
>>         > >>> tag is on 9f35e38, four commits later on August 1.
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> Guess which one got released?
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> Yup, we released the wrong commit for 4.0.7. The older
>>         one, missing
>>         > >>> several bug fixes. How did we manage to release
>>         something that wasn't
>>         > >>> actually tagged as 4.0.7? Doesn't the release build
>>         process involve
>>         > >>> something like "git checkout 4.0.7"? Help me understand
>>         what went wrong
>>         > >>> here...
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> I'm still trying to figure out how a commit titled "tag
>>         stable release
>>         > >>> 4.0.7" and the actual 4.0.7 tag do not point at the same
>>         place, let
>>         > >>> alone how the release build process does not actually
>>         directly check out
>>         > >>> the 4.0.7 tag.
>>         > >>>
>>         > >>> --
>>         > >>> Chris
>>         > >>>
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