Hello,
On 20.01.25 08:25, Daniel-Constantin Mierla via sr-dev wrote:
shall we still aim for releasing v6.0.0 on this upcoming Wednesday, January 29, 2025?
We the old-Makefiles kept, it is doable, the wiki pages needs to be created for this release series, which I can do tomorrow, as I waited to see if how it should be the recommended method for compilation/installation.
If the feeling is that we should wait, then probably the target date has to be shifted somewhere in the week starting on February 10, 2025, because Fosdem follows this weekend and then some countries have a week holiday break.
If no other opinions and change of decision, the release will be done on Wednesday, with content using the old-Makefiles (to reuse existing tutorials) and reference to cmake variant when it is the case.
Cheers, Daniel
Hi Daniel,
releasing 6.0 tomorrow sounds good to me.
Regarding the package building with the cmake infrastructure: I think for RPM based distributions we are probably close, for Debian based distributions there seems to be more work open as discussed in the different GitHub issues.
Packages for 6.0 could be created with the old Makefile system, sure.
But we should remove the Makefiles in git master for release 6.1 then completely, just to finish the migration. The really old releases (Ubuntu 16.04) with a too old cmake will be in 2026 then also end of life, so it should be fine.
Cheers,
Henning
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Henning Westerholt