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 <diegoherr...@diegoherranz.com> 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 <stambau...@gmail.com> 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 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : kicad-developers@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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