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Sunset support for Ubuntu 16.04 after PCL 1.11.1
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Description
There's consensus among the maintainers to not support PCL 1.12 on Vanilla 16.04 at least. We might still keep the CI running till the actual EOL date.
Actions to take in preparation of EOL
- Add a 18.04 CI (currently only clang is active, gcc is not)
- Enable
-Werroron all 18.04 CI - Bump minimum supported versions of all development dependencies:
- cmake (>= 3.10.2) (tracked in #4264)
- compilers (gcc >= 8.4, clang >= 10.0) (several available, these are highest we can push to)
- Eigen (>= 3.3.4)
- FLANN (>= 1.9.1)
- Boost (>= 1.65)
- VTK (>= 7.1.1
, < 9, patch in progress) - others
- Remove fixes and hacks for old versions (need to be enumerated)
List of new features available for use/abuse
CMake
- Native support for CUDA language
- googletest support
- OpenMP + Clang support
- FindBoost improvements
- Updates to
ifcommand for comparisons - compile_features instead of flags (eg: C++ 17 polyfill features) (PCL might still remain at C++14)
- Doxygen support
- Clang tidy integration
- cppcheck integration
- and more (<-- That's just 1 release)
Compilers
GCC
-Wreturn-type- Stricter template checking
alignofchanges- null value check
Clang
- new diagnostics
- OpenMP 5 support (Don't know the status in GCC)
- new sanitizers
Eigen
- Fixes for NVCC 9
- looks like bug fixes
Boost
FLANN
Couldn't find release notes, but here you go
VTK
Not familiar with VTK usage in PCL. Please distil the following:
List of deprecated features
CMake
- New policies for AUTOMOC and AUTOUIC (Might help with Qt)
Compilers, Eigen, VTK, Boost
(should not affect PCL)
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the existing Ubuntu 18.04 CI configuration and the CMake work tracked in #4264. Inventory the unchecked compiler and dependency version changes, then review where old-version fixes and hacks remain. Done means the listed CI and minimum-version actions are addressed and the remaining compatibility work is explicitly enumerated.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- cmake, cpp, ubuntu
- Domain
- build-system, ci-cd, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Refactor
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100