End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?

[Phyx]

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:

> Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017
> > <
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-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/dd405488.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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