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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>I’ve started a build, note that you will also need a PR to Hadrian to update WINVER.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:simon.jakobi@googlemail.com">Simon Jakobi</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Wednesday, May 9, 2018 09:49<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:lonetiger@gmail.com">Phyx</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:ben@well-typed.com">Ben Gamari</a>; <a href="mailto:ghc-devs@haskell.org">ghc-devs@haskell.org Devs</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Thanks for the reminder, Tamar!</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I have just created https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4679. I would be</p><p class=MsoNormal>very grateful if you could test it on 32bit Windows.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>Simon</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>2018-05-05 12:07 GMT+02:00 Phyx <lonetiger@gmail.com>:</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Hi Simon,</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit</p><p class=MsoNormal>> actually removing vista support.</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Did you end up not doing this anymore?</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> Thanks,</p><p class=MsoNormal>> Tamar</p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi <simon.jakobi@googlemail.com></p><p class=MsoNormal>> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Thanks everyone!</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> accordingly.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>>> Simon</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>> 2018-03-05 18:29 GMT+01:00 Phyx <lonetiger@gmail.com>:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes:</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > Hi!</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!?</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > I’m asking because I intend to use a function</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405488.aspx></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> > <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362>.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> ></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me.</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> Tamar, any objection?</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may not be</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues before).</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> Thanks,</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>> Tamar</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> Cheers,</p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>>>> - Ben</p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>