On Mon, Mar 5, 2018, 17:23 Ben Gamari <ben@well-typed.com> wrote:

Simon Jakobi via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes:

> 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).