bug#1849: Windows 7 Taskbar Support

[Stefan Kangas]

tags 1849 wontfix
close 1849
thanks

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
>> Date: Sun, 19 Sep 2021 09:20:43 -0700
>> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 1849@debbugs.gnu.org, 
>> michael@kleehammer.com
>>
>> >> > Unfortunately both of these require directly using the IPropertyStore
>> >> > interface, which is only available on Windows versions since Vista, and
>> >> > is missing from current mingw32 headers, so a significant amount of
>> >> > reverse engineering system headers will be involved.
>> >>
>> >> This was four years ago.  Has this been fixed in the meantime?
>> >
>> > No, and it probably never will be.
>>
>> That was five years ago.  Presumably, if it will never be fixed, life
>> will move on and Windows 7 will be left on the dustbin of history.
                                           ^^ in
>>
>> Should we just go ahead and close this as wontfix?  Lars?
>
> I'm not Lars, but I think that we should close it, indeed.

OK, thanks.  Closing.