Oldest Linux distro currently supported
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Oldest Linux distro currently supported
I've had a couple issues recently where code I wrote or reviewed turned out not to compile on an older distro -- I'd like to set up a VM with a representative of the oldest distribution we want to support as of right now (obviously this will change over time). Does anyone know what a good candidate for that is right now? Ubuntu Xenial (16.04)? Or do I need to go back to 14.04? Or something other than Ubuntu?
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Re: Oldest Linux distro currently supported
16.04 is the oldest. With a 5 year support cycle, 14.04 is EOL, and 16.04 will be too in 3 months.
Re: Oldest Linux distro currently supported
Do we actually intend to support 16.04 right now, though, on the current master branch (and with the 0.19 release)? I'm having difficulty getting it to compile, and of course on 16.04 you only have python2/Qt4, which the wiki very much seems to indicate we don't actually support.
Re: Oldest Linux distro currently supported
Yes through the dev cycle and 0.19 stable (unless 16.04 is EOL by then)chennes wrote: ↑Wed Jan 20, 2021 8:29 pm Do we actually intend to support 16.04 right now, though, on the current master branch (and with the 0.19 release)? I'm having difficulty getting it to compile, and of course on 16.04 you only have python2/Qt4, which the wiki very much seems to indicate we don't actually support.
The PPA builds master with PY3/QT4, you need a bunch of dependencies from the PPA https://launchpad.net/~freecad-maintain ... /+packages
The policy is to not drop support during a dev cycle. After 0.19 we will drop both PY2 and QT4.
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Re: Oldest Linux distro currently supported
OK, thanks. I thought I had to use Py2 with Qt4.sgrogan wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 2:52 pm The PPA builds master with PY3/QT4, you need a bunch of dependencies from the PPA https://launchpad.net/~freecad-maintain ... /+packages
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Re: Oldest Linux distro currently supported
It is clear what you say. But the reasoning seem strange (not saying it is coming from you). Considering that 16.04 is EOL in 3 month. And Python 2 is already EOL. Why should 0.19, that is not even released yet, take care to support these versions? (edit: for presumably several years until 0.2 comes out)