Re: Minimum version of Windows for default branch

[John W. Eaton]

On 3/10/19 2:07 PM, Rik wrote:

> > We could probably still use older (deprecated) Windows API functions until they 
> > will finally be removed in a future Windows version. But in the light of more 
> > and more dependencies dropping support for Windows XP, would it be OK to 
> > require Windows Vista or newer?
>
> This seems fine to me.  Developer time is limited, and supporting 
> ancient operating systems is not a high priority.

The last XP release was almost 10 years ago.  Support ended almost 5 
years ago.  If people want to do retro computing, then I recommend also 
using retro apps that match the obsolete OS.

Seriously though, if our dependencies are not supporting XP, then what 
can we do?  If it were just a few features that didn't work properly 
then we could probably work around the issue.  But I think most XP users 
wouldn't want a version of Octave without the GUI.

Octave is free software.  People are free to do whatever is necessary to 
support old operating systems if they choose to do so.  But I agree with 
Rik, supporting XP is not a high priority for me either.

jwe