[Nfd-dev] Dropping of Ubuntu 12.04 support

[Junxiao Shi]

Hi John

20160414 NFD call decides to drop Ubuntu 12.04 support upon next release,
as per platform policy.

Yours, Junxiao

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Junxiao Shi <shijunxiao at email.arizona.edu>
wrote:

> Hi John
>
> Per platform policy
> <http://named-data.net/codebase/platform/documentation/ndn-platform-development-guidelines/#Build_support>,
> NDN projects are required to support the latest and previous Ubuntu LTS
> releases.
> As soon as Ubuntu 16.04 LTS is released, Ubuntu 12.04 would fall out of
> this range and become unsupported.
> Per Ubuntu 16.04 release schedule
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/ReleaseSchedule>, the exact date is
> Apr 21, 2016.
>
> Nodes not yet upgraded to 14.04 or later can continue to run 0.4.1. Wire
> formats are compatible.
>
> Yours, Junxiao
>
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 8:46 AM, Dehart, John <jdd at wustl.edu> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> All:
>>
>> Is there a schedule for exactly when support for Ubuntu 12.04 will be
>> dropped?
>> The reason I ask is that most of the NDN Testbed still runs 12.04.
>> It will be a major effort to get all nodes upgraded and it will
>> undoubtedly
>> cause a lot of disruption.
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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