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RFC: Drop support for Julia 1.0-1.5 #1835

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mortenpi opened this issue May 31, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1841
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RFC: Drop support for Julia 1.0-1.5 #1835

mortenpi opened this issue May 31, 2022 · 1 comment · Fixed by #1841
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Status: Speculative It's unknown if this is something that we wan't to do Type: Maintenance

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So only support Julia 1.6+ from 0.28 onwards. Curious to know if there are any objections.

We don't really need <= 1.5 support for Julia docs themselves. For packages, you don't need to be able to run Documenter with every supported Julia version, and you can just build docs with Julia 1.6+. On the other hand, it would allow us to use JLLs etc. freely here (e.g. for Git, which is what prompted this).

If anyone really has a package that is only being run on Julia <= 1.5 (maybe privately), then they can still keep using the 0.27 branch.

@mortenpi mortenpi added Type: Maintenance Status: Speculative It's unknown if this is something that we wan't to do labels May 31, 2022
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odow commented May 31, 2022

No objections. No one should be using 1.1--1.5. They should either be using 1.0 or 1.6, and since 1.6 is now the LTS, they should move from 1.0 to 1.6 which is a non-breaking change. Even then, they can keep using 1.0 and Documenter 0.27, so there's no harm.

JuMP dropped <1.6 support when we release 1.0 and there hasn't been any issues. It really simplified our binary dependency story.

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