From: Stefan Weil via <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
"Yonggang Luo" <luoyonggang@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows
Date: Thu, 5 May 2022 11:14:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b82a3147-7673-ab8b-890b-e4bfd37133fd@weilnetz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA81qUOC-nZMfN57_+j-bLrfqwyqjQjbUw8UK6ekZmx-hg@mail.gmail.com>
Am 05.05.22 um 10:27 schrieb Peter Maydell:
> Ccing Stefan Weil, since we're talking about clarifying what
> our supported Windows host set is...
>
> On Thu, 5 May 2022 at 08:54, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> wrote:
>> Our support statement for Windows currently talks about "Vista / Server
>> 2008" - which is related to the API of Windows, and this is not easy
>> to understand for the non-technical users. It might also not be quite
>> true anymore, since we only compile-test QEMU with recent toolchains.
>>
>> Thus I'm suggesting to change the support statement here to something
>> similar that we use on Linux: Only support the very latest major release,
>> with support for the previous major release being dropped after two years
>> of overlap.
>>
>> And since we're nowadays also compile-testing QEMU with MSYS2 on Windows
>> itself, I think we could also mention this build environment here.
>>
>> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/880
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> docs/about/build-platforms.rst | 9 +++++----
>> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> index e9163ba556..a0ebc1acb4 100644
>> --- a/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> +++ b/docs/about/build-platforms.rst
>> @@ -86,11 +86,12 @@ similar versions.
>> Windows
>> -------
>>
>> -The project supports building with current versions of the MinGW toolchain,
>> -hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora).
>> +The project aims to support the most recent major version of Windows. Support
>> +for the previous major version will be dropped 2 years after the new major
>> +version is released.
>>
>> -The version of the Windows API that's currently targeted is Vista / Server
>> -2008.
>> +The project supports building QEMU with current versions of the MinGW
>> +toolchain, either hosted on Linux (Debian/Fedora) or via MSYS2 on Windows.
>>
>> .. _Homebrew: https://brew.sh/
>> .. _MacPorts: https://www.macports.org/
>> --
>> 2.27.0
> -- PMM
prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-05-05 10:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-05 7:48 [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows Thomas Huth
2022-05-05 8:14 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-05 11:55 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-05 14:12 ` Thomas Huth
2022-05-05 15:09 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-12 6:59 ` Thomas Huth
2022-05-05 8:27 ` Peter Maydell
2022-05-05 9:14 ` Stefan Weil via [this message]
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