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

The listing I used when looking at whether our supported OS's had Boost
1.59 were the dates given here:
http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/#_gnulinux. On that page, it
says that our support for 16.04 ended in April.

-Ian

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 8:03 PM Diego Herranz <diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> I wasn't getting any nightly package update lately and checking [1] I've
> just noticed this boost bump has left Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) out.
> Ubuntu 16.04 will be supported until April 2021 [2].
>
> Was this overlooked when checking distros? Or was it a deliberate
> decision? Is there anything that can be done?
> I've been planning to move to a newer Ubuntu LTS release for some time but
> didn't really have the need while it is supported (everything stable and
> working very well).
> I guess there may be more people in a situation similar to mine.
>
> Cheers,
> Diego
>
> [1] https://launchpad.net/~js-reynaud/+archive/ubuntu/kicad-dev-nightly
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_version_history#Table_of_versions
>
> On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 19:59, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 10/2/2019 8:34 PM, Wayne Stambaugh wrote:
>> > On 9/27/19 12:20 AM, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> Am 26.09.19 um 22:26 schrieb Ian McInerney:
>> >>> Ping. Is there any opposition to bumping the minimum Boost version to
>> >>> 1.59?
>> >> I still see no technical need to increase the minimal version for
>> Boost.
>> >>
>> >
>> > The boost version used in Debian old stable is 1.62.  I think 1.59 is a
>> > pretty safe bet at this point for the development version.  For the 5.1
>> > branch, we should keep the current version unless we are planning to
>> > back port any of the testing features which were the primary reason for
>> > the version bump request.  I will make the change as soon as I get a
>> > chance, we can always revert it if it causes too much grief.
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> >
>> > Wayne
>> >
>>
>> I bumped the Boost version to 1.59.  If this causes any major headaches,
>> I can always revert it.  Before we go using any new Boost stuff, please
>> let the dust settle on the version bump change so we don't have to back
>> out a bunch of changes.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Wayne
>>
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