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[Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx>]

I'm going to revive the question Adam asked about keeping a list of the
last stable version that was supported for each OS when it was dropped. I
think it might be useful to do this for at least Mac and Windows, and just
make sure to put a disclaimer that no support is given and no guarantees
can be made.

-Ian

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:11 AM Adam Wolf <adamwolf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Should we indicate anywhere about the latest stable version supported on
> various OSes?  I.e. 5.0.2 is fine on 10.11.  This information is already in
> the readme in the dmgs, but it might be a pain to go look for it.
>
> I am maybe overthinking it.  Apple said they don't care enough about
> supporting these users, and Apple makes money off of them.
>
> Adam
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 12:36 PM Seth Hillbrand <seth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Am 2019-02-27 15:59, schrieb Wayne Stambaugh:
>> > 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.
>>
>> OK.  PR is at [1].  Comments on this wording welcome.
>>
>> -Seth
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/pull/387
>>
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