[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Lee]

On 1/5/22, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, I love it: untested but will likely run on

>>> 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.

Yes.  I get
$ grep -i GetTickCount64 privoxy.exe
grep: privoxy.exe: binary file matches

for 3.0.33 and no match if I do the grep on the privoxy.exe from 3.0.32

Lee