[Privoxy-devel] Windows XP support?

[Ian Silvester]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2022, at 10:46, Fabian Keil wrote:
> "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.

Understood - I will make appropriate adjustments before committing.

> 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".

I see your point, but I suspect that a sizeable portion of users might want a binary for older releases (esp. macOS) but lack the ability to build their own. I will add appropriate warning that these older releases include known security issues and that it is preferable to build the latest code to target their chosen OS release. Are comfortable with that?

>> 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.

The advantage of having a table in the FAQ (that I will take responsibility for updating prior to release) is to have all the info of the last binary with a given OS version support in one place.

>> 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.

Understood, and it's certainly also true for me on Gentoo :)

Ian


> Fabian
>
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