[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Ian Silvester]

On Tue, 11 Jan 2022, at 02:32, Lee wrote:
> 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

Thanks both, I had missed this of course.

I'll improve this answer by adding sentences to cover the testing, expected-to-work and no-longer-supported OS versions for the macOS and Windows binaries our project supplies. @Fabian if you have any details pertaining to BSD in this regard please let me know. I know you compile and test on ElectroBSD, but is there any element in the ports packaging that gives an indication of supported BSD version?

Cheers,

Ian