[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Lee]

On 1/10/22, Ian Silvester <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote:
> 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?

How about updating the FAQ instead:
  2.2. Which operating systems are supported?

  At present, Privoxy is known to run on Windows 95 and later versions
(98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7, Windows 10 etc.), GNU/Linux
(RedHat, SuSE, Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Slackware and others), Mac OS X
(10.4 and upwards on PPC and Intel processors), Haiku, DragonFly,
ElectroBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Solaris, and various other
flavors of Unix.

I'm OK with any wording that makes it clear that the only Windows OS
Privoxy has been tested on is Windows 10.  .. unless we can get others
with different versions of Windows to do at least the regression tests
after a new release.

Lee