I'm going to revive the question Adam asked about keeping a list of the last stable version that was supported for each OS when it was dropped. I think it might be useful to do this for at least Mac and Windows, and just make sure to put a disclaimer that no support is given and no guarantees can be made.
-Ian On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:11 AM Adam Wolf <[email protected]> wrote: > Should we indicate anywhere about the latest stable version supported on > various OSes? I.e. 5.0.2 is fine on 10.11. This information is already in > the readme in the dmgs, but it might be a pain to go look for it. > > I am maybe overthinking it. Apple said they don't care enough about > supporting these users, and Apple makes money off of them. > > Adam > > On Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 12:36 PM Seth Hillbrand <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Am 2019-02-27 15:59, schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: >> > On 2/27/2019 3:30 PM, Seth Hillbrand wrote: >> >> Am 2019-02-27 14:57, schrieb Wayne Stambaugh: >> >>> Hey Adam, >> >>> >> >>> I'm guessing the impact of not supporting 10.11 would not be that >> >>> great >> >>> but I'm not a mac user so I cannot be certain. Are there any mac >> >>> users >> >>> opposed to this? I'm fine with this if there is no uproar from the >> >>> mac >> >>> user community. >> >> >> >> This would be a good idea from this Mac user's perspective. >> >> >> >> As a related question, can we state a policy on the website[1] that we >> >> will support OS versions that are within their developers' support >> >> cycles? Older versions may work but we don't support them. >> >> >> >> This would allow deprecating support for Vista as well. Ubuntu 12.04 >> >> and 14.04 would be removed in April. >> >> >> >> If we are explicit in this, we can move compiler and library support >> >> forward to eliminate a number of work arounds in the codebase. It >> >> also >> >> allows users to predict KiCad support cycles into the future. >> >> >> >> -S >> >> >> >> >> >> [1] http://kicad-pcb.org/help/system-requirements/ >> > >> > This seem perfectly reasonable to me. We could also add a note about >> > not supporting every single WM in Linux as well given the number of >> > issues that this has caused. >> >> OK. PR is at [1]. Comments on this wording welcome. >> >> -Seth >> >> [1] https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/pull/387 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : [email protected] >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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