Re: Clarifying Windows support

[Jonas Hahnfeld]

Am Montag, dem 14.02.2022 um 22:47 +0100 schrieb Jean Abou Samra:
> Hi,
> 
> What is right in https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/6286 is
> that https://lilypond.org/windows.html currently says systems as old
> as Windows 2000 are supported, which is obviously not true. It looks
> like that page has not been updated for long. What should we replace
> this statement with? In my opinion, as stated on
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2021-12/msg00098.html
> there is no point in claiming Windows 7 support if we can't commit to
> it, and we have little to no testing resources for that.

I think the equally, if not more important factor is what we actually
*can* support. For example, it was fundamentally impossible to produce
working 64-bit binaries for Windows with Guile 1.8. Likewise it won't
be possible to (fully) support Windows 7 if we don't want to get stuck
on Python 3.8.10, see
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/lilypond-devel/2021-12/msg00093.html
of the same thread.

I like Karlin's proposal of "supported on current versions of Windows"
because more changes will happen in the future, even dropping support
for certain editions of Windows 10. Without testing on every one of
them, we won't necessarily notice until some user does.

Jonas

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