End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?

[Simon Jakobi]

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 <lonetiger at gmail.com>:

>
>
> 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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