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
