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[Seppe Stas <seppestas@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a MacOS user, I also agree with dropping support for older versions as
long as it's clearly documented.

It would be nice to keep at least MacOS 10.12 supported for a while though,
since this is the last version that supports the HFS+ file system AFAIK. I
know some people sticking to MacoS 10.12 for this reason, though to be fair
I don't know any people that use KiCAD on MacOS and stick to HFS+ 🤷‍♂️.

Seppe

On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 10:01 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> On 2/27/2019 3:30 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
> > 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/
>
> This seem perfectly reasonable to me.  We could also add a note about
> not supporting every single WM in Linux as well given the number of
> issues that this has caused.
>
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