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Update base for Docker build image#394

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@abrown abrown commented Mar 8, 2024

I came across this in #392, where it became clear that Ubuntu's 18.04 release (now several years old) was using quite ancient versions of certain tools.

I came across this in WebAssembly#392, where it became clear that Ubuntu's 18.04
release (now several years old) was using quite ancient versions of
certain tools.
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sbc100 commented Mar 8, 2024

I think the idea is that we want to continue to support Ubuntu's 18.04 (bionic) users. At least we should probably not stop supporting them unless we have good reason to.

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abrown commented Mar 8, 2024

Ah, I don't think I understood your Dockerfile comment correctly... but I get it now — maintain backwards compatibility for as long as possible.

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One thing I'll note is that in rust-lang/rust we ran into toolchain issues a lot and the solution was that while we'd start with an ancient docker container we'd download and build newer versions of tools needed, e.g. a newer git, cmake, openssl, clang, etc.

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