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On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 10:00 AM Chase Whitener <cwhitener@gmail.com> wrote: > Windows 2000 EOLed in July of 2010. > Windows Home Server EOLed in January 2013. > Windows XP EOLed in April of 2014. > Windows Server 2003 EOLed in July of 2015. > Windows Home Server 2011 EOLed in April of 2016. > Windows Vista EOLed in April of 2017. > Windows Server 2008 (and R2) EOLed in January of 2020. > Windows 7 EOLed in January of 2020. > > This leaves Windows 8, Windows server 2012, and Windows 10 still being > currently supported by Microsoft. > > I'd like to propose that we officially and formally drop any and all > support for Windows Vista and older. Granted, this would leave Windows > Server 2008 and Windows 7 supported even though they're EOLed, but > they've only just been EOLed. > > This would significantly reduce complexity necessary for patches for > Windows and make future additions simpler. > FYI I opened https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18521 to collect discussion on a slightly simpler proposal (I believe Vista-era platforms are significantly simpler to support but could certainly be amended to include them or do that as another step if warranted). -DanThread Previous | Thread Next