The primary factor determining what this project is the personal preferences of its contributors, who volunteer.
That being said these notes should help users manage expectations and guide decisions of contributors.
- Dev Container
- A reproducible environment where everything should work.
- Expect help troubleshooting if something does not work.
- Debian
- Can do everything the dev container can do if set up correctly.
- In practice the best tested environment, but may not be fully documented.
- Expect to do your own troubleshooting since it is not a reproducible environment.
- Ubuntu
- Some dependencies may not cross-compile.
- MacOS
- Cross compilation does not work.
- WSL
- Windows
The most recent LTS is the most prioritized target because it strikes a balance between being feature richness and stability.
- LTS 2024 (11.11.z)
- Active (12.y.z)
- LTS 2022 (12.12.z)
- LTS 2020 (9.80)