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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

You can still run 5.1 on 16.04. If you want bleeding edge, don't lock
yourself down with a "stable" system.

On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 21:37, Diego Herranz
<diegoherranz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I see. Are those dates when the respective OS support finishes or when we stop supporting them?
> I was under the impression it is the former (although it is not fully clear) in which case that date is wrong.
>
> Thanks,
> Diego
>
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 at 20:16, Ian McInerney <Ian.S.McInerney@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> 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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