[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Ian Silvester]

On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, at 14:48, Ian Silvester wrote:
> On Sat, 8 Jan 2022, at 03:38, Fabian Keil wrote:
>> "Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2022-01-05 at 09:20:42:
>>
>>> On Wed, 5 Jan 2022, at 09:11, Lee wrote:
>>> > On 1/5/22, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>>
>>> >> 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.
>>
>> I think we should differentiate between what operating systems
>> are supported by a given binary package and what operating systems
>> a Privoxy version is expected to run on when compiled properly.
>>
>> IMHO we as a project still support Windows XP in
>> the sense that we answer support requests.
>>
>> I'd also expect Privoxy 3.0.33 to work on Windows XP when
>> the user compiles it herself using a tool chain that still
>> works on Windows XP. We just don't provide binaries for
>> Windows XP at this time due to lack of resources or interest.
>>
>> Fabian
>
> Good point, and I agree. I will make sure the documentation updates 
> include this distinction.
>
> Ian

Having reviewed the web site documentation, there is no existing information regarding supported operating system versions, ergo nothing there to correct. I intend to address this in the macOS release by updating the associated README. Lee are you up for adding a step to your release process to update similar details in the Win32 README.txt?

Ian

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