RE: End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6?

I’ve started a build, note that you will also need a PR to Hadrian to update WINVER. From: Simon Jakobi Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 09:49 To: Phyx Cc: Ben Gamari; ghc-devs@haskell.org Devs Subject: Re: End of Windows Vista support in GHC-8.6? Thanks for the reminder, Tamar! I have just created https://phabricator.haskell.org/D4679. I would be very grateful if you could test it on 32bit Windows. Cheers, Simon 2018-05-05 12:07 GMT+02:00 Phyx :

Hi Simon,

Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit actually removing vista support.

Did you end up not doing this anymore?

Thanks, Tamar

On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi wrote:

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Thanks everyone!

I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows accordingly.

Cheers, Simon

2018-03-05 18:29 GMT+01:00 Phyx :

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On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari wrote:

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Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs writes:

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Hi!

Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!?

I’m asking because I intend to use a function

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405488.aspx that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362 https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362.

Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me.

Tamar, any objection?

No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may not be implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues before).

Thanks, Tamar

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Cheers,

- Ben