Garden support

[chapulina]

This ticket tracks Garden support for various platforms.

• See all supported platforms for Garden on this page.
• See the definition of Gz's support categories on this page.

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Updated 28 Oct by @j-rivero

Platform	Support	Packaging	CI	Functionality
Ubuntu Focal amd64	✅ official	✅ Yes	✅ Yes, every pull request	✅ All
Ubuntu Focal arm64	best-effort	✅ Yes	No	Most low-level libraries known to work
Ubuntu Focal armhf	best-effort	✅ Yes	No	Most low-level libraries known to work,
Ubuntu Jammy amd64	✅ official	✅ Yes	✅ Yes, every pull request	✅ All
Ubuntu Jammy arm64	best-effort	✅ Yes	No	Most low-level libraries known to work
Ubuntu Jammy armhf	best-effort	In progress	No	🚫 Blocked in gz-rendering since ogre-next-2.3 fails to compile
macOS 11 (Big Sur)	best-effort	✅ Yes	✅ Yes, every pull request	Ignition only works with server (ign gazebo -s) and gui (ign gazebo -g) opened in separate processes (gazebosim/gz-sim#44), and only with ogre2 (check your world file).
macOS 11 (Carolina)	best-effort	✅ Yes	TODO
Windows	best-effort	✅ Yes	✅ Yes, every pull request	Conda-forge (community effort). ⚠️ Please note that Windows is not fully functional and won't work out of the box.

[chapulina]

Since Garden won't support Bionic, we should remove Bionic metadata from Garden's -release repos.

[j-rivero]

Speaking for Debian:

• Buster is currently oldstable, not supported anymore, we can stop it.
• Bullseye is the current stable
• Next stable (Bookworm) tentative release calendar was out last week, 2023-03-12 is the date of the last Freeze announced, release will probably happen months after it.
• ROS2 targets Bullseye as Tier3

[scpeters]

macOS Catalina will be end-of-life very soon, so I'm going to change the macOS support version to Big Sur only

[chapulina]

@scpeters , what macOS version is tested on CI? It would be nice to update the table with that too

[scpeters]

@scpeters , what macOS version is tested on CI? It would be nice to update the table with that too

we currently test in CI with both Catalina and Big Sur, but we will stop testing with Catalina in a few months

[chapulina]

we currently test in CI with both Catalina and Big Sur

Oh interesting, so jobs like ignition_gazebo-ci-pr_any-homebrew-amd64 may go to one or the other? I never realized that. Could it be another source of flakiness?

[scpeters]

we currently test in CI with both Catalina and Big Sur

Oh interesting, so jobs like ignition_gazebo-ci-pr_any-homebrew-amd64 may go to one or the other? I never realized that. Could it be another source of flakiness?

Yes it could be. I think noting which failures occur on which machines would be a way to track this

[eMPee584]

Speaking for Debian:
* Bullseye is the current stable

So, has anyone tried building for bullseye yet? Neither the focal nor the jammy builds can be installed on current debian stable, unsurprisingly..
gz-garden.focal.apt.log
gz-garden.jammy.apt.log