Hi Simon, Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit actually removing vista support.
Did you end up not doing this anymore? Thanks, Tamar On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi <simon.jak...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Thanks everyone! > > I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows > accordingly. > > Cheers, > Simon > > 2018-03-05 18:29 GMT+01:00 Phyx <loneti...@gmail.com>: > >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <b...@well-typed.com> wrote: >> >>> Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: >>> >>> > Hi! >>> > >>> > Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017 >>> > <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vist >>> a-end-of-support> >>> > i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!? >>> > >>> > I’m asking because I intend to use a function >>> > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd >>> 405488.aspx> >>> > that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362 >>> > <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362>. >>> > >>> Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me. >>> >>> Tamar, any objection? >>> >> >> No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of >> ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may not >> be implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues >> before). >> >> Thanks, >> Tamar >> >> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> - Ben >>> >> >
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