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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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