[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Fabian Keil]

"Ian Silvester" <iansilvester at fastmail.fm> wrote on 2022-01-11 at 18:58:02:

> Update - here's my proposed change for your approval prior to
> committing:
> https://silvester.org.uk/privoxy-doc-testing/faq/installation.html

I don't quite like the wording "binaries shipped by the Privoxy project"
and "Project-supplied binaries" and would prefer "binaries provided
by members of the Privoxy team" or something similar that makes
it clear that the binaries are provided by individuals and not
the whole project.

I'm also not so sure about mentioning old releases with known
security issues without warning.

For example my recommendation for Windows XP users would be to
build the latest Privoxy release themselves if possible instead
of downloading an obsolete Privoxy version that happens to "work".

> Despite this clarification, I still intend to update the macOS binary
> package README with similar details - in this way we will build a
> library of releases with support for older OS versions.

Adding theses details to the READMEs makes sense to me as well.

Then the FAQ could simply refer to the READMEs without duplicating
the information and with less risk that the information in the
FAQ becomes obsolete because we forgot to update it before a release.

> Let me know what you think, and @Fabian whether you would like row(s)
> added for BSD.

I don't think that's needed. I expect BSD users to simply check
the package repositories of their platform.

That's probably true for Debian users as well.

Fabian
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