[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Lee]

On 1/5/22, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 08:24, Lee wrote:
>> On 1/4/22, Fabian Keil <fk at fabiankeil.de> wrote:
>>> According to:
>>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/ijbswa/support-requests/1747/>
>>> the released Privoxy binaries for Windows no longer support Windows XP.
>>>
>>> If that's correct and intentional we should probable document it.
>>>
>>> CC'ing Lee as gmail.com seems to bounce Mailman messages.
>>
>> *sigh* I've seen a few privoxy msgs marked as spam, I didn't realize
>> google was just dropping some msgs before I saw them tho :(
>>
>> In any case,
>> https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/api/sysinfoapi/nf-sysinfoapi-gettickcount64
>>
>> has this bit for GetTickCount64()
>>   Requirements	
>>   Minimum supported client 	Windows Vista
>>
>> So it seems that function doesn't exist in windows xp.
>
> Got it. Since I now have a functional docbook environment, I'll update
> documentation to indicate that Vista is now the minimum supported Windows
> version.

I wouldn't do anything to break privoxy on earlier Windows OSs, but
windows 10 & 11 are the only supported MS OS now as far as I know.

Kind of a long way of saying I think the only supported Windows
version should be win10.  Unless someone still has .. or has access
to, older OSs I don't see how we can claim to support older OSs.

> Do either of you know when we introduced the use of
> GetTickCount64()?

no idea - it doesn't show up in the source code:

Lee at i3668 /git/privoxy/privoxy
$ grep -rni GetTickCount64 *
grep: privoxy.exe: binary file matches

Lee