Drake: Is Ubuntu 12.04 Support Still Needed?

[david-german-tri]

There are various shards of documentation related to Ubuntu 12.04 in the wiki. Open question: does the Drake community think it's important to continue 12.04 support? Options are:

• Leave it in the current ambiguous state
• Officially cease support for 12.04 and remove references to it
• Officially support 12.04 with CI coverage
• Your ideas here

[liangfok]

+1 for "Officially cease support for 12.04 and remove references to it"

Later this month: rapidly spin up official support for 16.04.

[jamiesnape]

Later this month: rapidly spin up official support for 16.04.

I think we should concentrate on getting every currently supported platform fully tested with all optional dependencies on CI first. Day one support of a new OS is not realistic at present.

[patmarion]

The target platform for OpenHumanoids is Ubuntu 14.04, so with that requirement in mind I would not miss Ubuntu 12 support.

That said, I wish drake could support the default compiler on ubuntu 14... :)

[david-german-tri]

Hearing no demand for Ubuntu 12, I'm going to drop it. Thanks all!