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 <th...@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
