On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 19:47, Chris Morley <chrisinnana...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> If it is easy enough to keep support of an old distro then why not? We are being squeezed at both ends, though. LinuxCNC relies on tools (and versions of tools) that don't work on the latest OS versions. Whereas the older OS versions don't necessarily work with the latest tools. Ubuntu Precise uses gcc 4.6. That implements C++98 by default. C++17 is almost a different language. And we will have to move to Python3 at some point. The legacy OSes all have Py3, but whether the associated things (PyGTK etc) will work on those systems with Py3 is not something I know. And it is hard to test on all the platforms. I spent much of today setting up test systems for Precise and Wheezy, to go along with my triple-boot hardware testing machine that runs Mint, Buster and Stretch. The buildbot is currently testing builds for 20 different combinations of OS and realtime. (and I would like to see Buster RTAI added) -- atp "A motorcycle is a bicycle with a pandemonium attachment and is designed for the especial use of mechanical geniuses, daredevils and lunatics." — George Fitch, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, 1912 _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list Emc-developers@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
