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[Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Am 2019-02-27 14:57, schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
> Hey Adam,
>
> I'm guessing the impact of not supporting 10.11 would not be that great
> but I'm not a mac user so I cannot be certain.  Are there any mac users
> opposed to this?  I'm fine with this if there is no uproar from the mac
> user community.

This would be a good idea from this Mac user's perspective.

As a related question, can we state a policy on the website[1] that we 
will support OS versions that are within their developers' support 
cycles?  Older versions may work but we don't support them.

This would allow deprecating support for Vista as well.  Ubuntu 12.04 
and 14.04 would be removed in April.

If we are explicit in this, we can move compiler and library support 
forward to eliminate a number of work arounds in the codebase.  It also 
allows users to predict KiCad support cycles into the future.

-S


[1] http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/