[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Ian Silvester]

On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 09:11, Lee wrote:
> 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.

On the Mac side I make the distinction between 'tested on' and 'untested but will likely run on'. Given MS' famed API backwards compatibility would you be comfortable for us to claim the latter for Vista and Win7?

>> 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

Okay - with your approval I will make the assumption that the user reporting the issue previously ran 3.0.32 without issue and that therefore 3.0.32 is the last version that supported XP.

Ian


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> Lee