Re: [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows

[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