no one forces you to update, you can just stick with 2.8. if you do want to update, update to buster.
Am So., 19. Apr. 2020 um 19:51 Uhr schrieb Gene Heskett < ghesk...@shentel.net>: > On Sunday 19 April 2020 12:58:13 René Hopf via Emc-developers wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I added the EOL date of the official distros to the wiki: > > http://wiki.linuxcnc.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MinimumSoftwareVersions > > Notice that only stretch and buster are not near end of life. > > > > Recently there have been 2 PRs with code that doesn’t work on old > > compilers. https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/689 > > https://github.com/LinuxCNC/linuxcnc/pull/714 > > > > I don’t understand why we support distros that have been released 8 > > years ago. > > Making newer stuff work on legacy software is just a waste of > > developers time. > > If people can’t be bothered to update the distro, why would they be > > bothered to update linuxcnc? > > As far as Im aware everything works on stretch. > > > > After a short discussion with jepler on irc, he mentioned that it > > hasn’t been decided to drop support, and its unclear on how to decide > > stuff like this. > > > > My proposal: > > Keep 2.8 as it is, as it's near the release. > > > > Drop support for anything earlier than Stretch in master, and as soon > > as python3 support is working, drop support for python2 in master. > > Python2 is EOL since January, and it's not feasible to support both. > > > > Rene > > > All well and nice in theory. But after some discussion a month or so back > saying you had perms to use mint for the next release whereas debian was > dragging their feet, I mention in replying to someone suggesting I > update that upgrading would change to mint, but then Andy popped in and > said no. According to the downloads web page, the latest that does a > full capability install is still wheezy. > > If we now are forced to upgrade because support for the older wheezy > build kit is to be dropped, what do we upgrade to? IOW whats the > official word and where can I download an install iso for it that is not > obsoleted by the distro before we can fan the paint is dry. > > FWIW, I am haveing great luck building master on an rpi4b to run on an > rpi4b. I've even figured out how to install a 4.19.71-rt24-v7l+ #1 SMP > PREEMPT RT kernel from a 30 meg tarball, which has decent latency AND > support for the video hardware on a late pi board. Thats your basic > buster 10.3 install according to raspbian. Works great and VERY STABLE. > > I've had 3 wintel boxes waiting for the next release since the wheezy > repo's were pulled, what 4 years ago? Now jessie and stretch are gone > too. > > Cheers, and curious, Gene Heskett > -- > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. > - Louis D. Brandeis > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-developers mailing list > Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers > _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
