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 <th...@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 <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 -- PMM
