End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?

[Phyx]

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.jakobi at 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 <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-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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