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

9 May 2018


      Thanks a lot, Tamar! I'll make the PR for Hadrian once my patch is accepted.

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I’ve started a build, note that you will also need a PR to Hadrian to update
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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 :
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Hi Simon,
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Whatever happened to this? The wiki was updated but I don't see a commit
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actually removing vista support.
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Did you end up not doing this anymore?
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Thanks,
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Tamar
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On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 7:21 PM, Simon Jakobi 
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Thanks everyone!
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I have updated https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/Platforms/Windows
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accordingly.
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Cheers,
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Simon
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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!
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Given that Vista’s EOL was in April 2017
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https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/22882/windows-vista-end-of-support
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i assume that there’s no intention to keep supporting it in GHC-8.6!?
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I’m asking because I intend to use a function
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https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd405488.aspx
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that requires Windows 7 or newer for #13362
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https://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/13362.
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Given that it's EOL'd, dropping Vista sounds reasonable to me.
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Tamar, any objection?
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No objections, however do make sure to test both 32 and 64 bit builds of
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ghc when you use the API, it's new enough and rare enough that it may
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implemented in both mingw-64 tool chains (we've had similar issues
before).
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Thanks,
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Tamar
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Cheers,
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- Ben
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