Re: [Csnd-dev] Supported Platforms

As far as I can tell 3.13.4 is the lowest version I can find for the linux
distros I mentioned:

https://pkgs.org/download/cmake

I think other platforms have newer versions available, but someone feel
free to correct me if I'm wrong.

On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 4:18 PM Stephen Kyne <[email protected]> wrote:

> It would be good to know what is the minimum Cmake version to use is.
> There are some features that would be nice to have but I think we're
> limited by older Linux distros.
>
> Stephen
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> *From:* Csound-developers <[email protected]> on behalf of
> Steven Yi <[email protected]>
> *Sent:* Tuesday 2 January 2024 19:28
> *To:* [email protected] <[email protected]>
> *Subject:* [Csnd-dev] Supported Platforms
>
> Hi All,
>
> I'm looking at platforms for us to support, mainly using the criteria of
> what is supported by the platform maintainers (i.e., MS, Apple, Linux
> Distros) for LTS. If the platform maintainers are no longer supporting a
> version of an OS, then I think we are okay to drop support for it as well.
>
> The main impact from supporting these older platforms is that we should
> look at the version of dependencies they have available. For example,
> Debian 10 has CMake 3.13 as its last release available in its repo.
>
> From looking around I think we should support:
>
> * Windows 10 (EOL is Oct 14th, 2025:
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/windows-10-home-and-pro
> )
>   * Unsure what version of Visual Studio we should set for support
> * macOS 12 (Apple support current and last two versions of macOS:
> https://endoflife.date/macos)
> * Linux
>   * Debian 10 (https://wiki.debian.org/LTS)
>   * Fedora 38 (from looking at https://pkgs.org/)
>   * Ubuntu 20.04 (https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle)
>   * OpenSuse 15.4
>   * Arch (rolling release)
>
> For architectures, I assume:
> * x64 for Windows
> * x86_64 + arm64 for macOS
> * amd64 and arm64 for Linux
>
> For desktop systems, am I missing anything? If we can finalize the
> supported platforms, we can then look at dependencies for versions we
> should be using.
>
> For Mobile, we have iOS and Android. I have not kept up with either to
> know what platforms are the minimums we should support, but we should also
> document and keep those up to date.
>
> For the web, we have some control via Nix for toolchain versioning for
> building WASM Csound. There is an open PR for adding back in Emscripten
> support that we'll need to resolve. However, I think we'll likely be more
> limited by earlier Linux Desktop platforms more than anything in regards to
> tools and library versions.
>
> For embedded (e.g., Bela, baremetal, RPi), I'm not on those platforms so I
> need suggestions from others for what to add for supported platform
> documentation.
>
> Thanks!
> Steven
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