So, what would you recommend to developers migrating code from hydro to indigo? I think we need to have support for both distributions in one LTS to move from one to another. On 27 March 2014 17:59, Jack O'Quin wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Jochen Sprickerhof < > ros-users@jochen.sprickerhof.de> wrote: > >> * Michael Fritscher [2014-03-27 >> 17:37]: >> > in my experience, you can use the binary builds from ros for Ubuntu >> precise >> > also in trusty - yust to be sure that you have repos from Ubuntu >> precise in >> > your sources.list for the right boost version etc. It can be that you >> have a >> > little fun with apt, but in general it should work. I had even upgraded >> > precise on which hydro is installed, to trusty with this trick without >> > removing ros. >> >> That's not a good idea, because different Ubuntu versions usually >> provide different software versions, for example boost ;). >> > > Agreed. You can play those games with your personal systems, if you like. > Presumably you know how to fix it if necessary or at worst re-install a > clean OS. > > But, we should never recommend that sort of fiddling to the general ROS > community. > -- > joq > > _______________________________________________ > ros-users mailing list > ros-users@lists.ros.org > http://lists.ros.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-users > > -- Miquel Massot miquel.massot@gmail.com