Hi Max, The paragraphs above and below the table in the plan document explain this in detail. The reference platforms are where we focus most of our efforts but it is not an exhaustive list. For most platforms we usually only reference the most recent release of that platform generally available at the time of our release. For example we only list the most recent RHEL, SLES, Ubuntu LTS, etc. Windows has long been the exception to this general rule. Because it was such a popular platform for Eclipse, we kept Windows XP around long after it was superceded by newer Windows versions.
At this time I know Kepler builds still run on Windows XP, and there are one or two committers that still have an XP machine available where they can investigate specific issues. It is quite possible nothing will change in the Kepler stream to prevent Eclipse running on Windows XP. Having said that, mainstream support for Windows XP ended three years ago [1]. Bugs that occur only on Windows XP will be considered low priority at this point. I don't know enough about the differences between OS X 10.7 and 10.8 to comment on that one specifically, but I expect we run fine on 10.7. This is just our convention mentioned above that we focus on the most recent release of a given OS. John [1] http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/products/lifecycle From: Max Rydahl Andersen <[email protected]> To: "Eclipse platform general developers list." <[email protected]>, Date: 01/24/2013 12:39 PM Subject: [platform-dev] Windows XP and OS X 10.7 in Kepler ? Sent by: [email protected] Hi, I'm looking at Eclipse Kepler plan [1] and just noticing that Windows XP (afaics the second biggest OS by user-count) is crossed out and no mention of OS X 10.7 (only OS X 10.8 even OS 10.7 has about as high usage as 10.8). Are these just missing from here because of lack of access to testing on this platform at eclipse.org or does it also mean issues related to these specific platforms will not be considered ? This is mainly concerning Windows XP which got some quirks compared to Windows 7 and OS X 10.7 with respect to how JavaVM's and SWT Browser is handled. My assumption is that if we find issues and can help test it they can be fixed; but I just wanted to make sure of the ramifications since this is the first time I've seen Eclipse drop support for such a widely used OS as Windows XP. [1] http://www.eclipse.org/projects/project-plan.php?planurl=http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/plans/eclipse_project_plan_4_3.xml#target_environments /max _______________________________________________ platform-dev mailing list [email protected] https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/platform-dev
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