End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?

[Simon Jakobi]

Thanks a lot, Tamar! I'll make the PR for Hadrian once my patch is accepted.

2018-05-09 20:12 GMT+02:00  <lonetiger at gmail.com>:
> I’ve started a build, note that you will also need a PR to Hadrian to update
> WINVER.
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> From: Simon Jakobi
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 09:49
> To: Phyx
> Cc: Ben Gamari; ghc-devs at haskell.org Devs
> Subject: Re: End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?
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> Thanks for the reminder, Tamar!
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> I have just created https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4679. I would be
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> Cheers,
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> Simon
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> 2018-05-05 12:07 GMT+02:00 Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>:
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>> Hi Simon,
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>> Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit
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>> actually removing vista support.
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>> Did you end up not doing this anymore?
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>> Thanks,
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>> Tamar
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>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi <simon.jakobi at googlemail.com>
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>>> Thanks everyone!
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>>> I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows
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>>> accordingly.
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>>> Cheers,
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>>> Simon
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>>> 2018-03-05 18:29 GMT+01:00 Phyx <lonetiger at gmail.com>:
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>>>> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <ben at well-typed.com> wrote:
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>>>>> Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs at haskell.org> writes:
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>>>>> > Hi!
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>>>>> > Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017
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>>>>> > <https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support>
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>>>>> > i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!?
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>>>>> > I’m asking because I intend to use a function
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>>>>> > <https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405488.aspx>
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>>>>> > that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362
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>>>>> > <https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362>.
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>>>>> Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me.
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>>>>> Tamar, any objection?
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>>>> No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of
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>>>> ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may
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>>>> implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues
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>>>> Thanks,
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>>>> Tamar
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>>>>> Cheers,
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>>>>> - Ben
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