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

[Stefan Weil]

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