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

I dug into the website history and apparently the original intent should
have been to support 16.04 LTS until its standard support ends in 2021 (
https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/commit/007fb582a316fa513778a393e2696d17c0031cea#r33487782).
Since we haven't actually used any code from the newer Boost version (that
we weren't already using), we should probably back out the change and also
update the website with the correct Ubuntu LTS support date. It looks like
that will make it so we can't update to 1.59 until 2021 then.

-Ian

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 9:35 PM Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> According to Ubuntu[1], 16.04 looks like it will continue to receive
> maintenance updates until April 2021.  It looks like we got that wrong.
>  The boost version in 16.04 is 1.58.  There is no newer version of boost
> in the back ports repo so we have a decision to make.  Drop support for
> Ubuntu 16.04 nightly builds or drop the minimum boost version to 1.58.
> I'm fine with dropping nightly build support for Ubuntu 16.04.  I don't
> have a vested interest one way or another.  The stable version of KiCad
> will always build with 16.04.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Wayne
>
> On 10/21/19 3:36 PM, Diego Herranz 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
> > <mailto: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
> >     <mailto: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 <mailto: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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