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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: "Daniel P . Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>,
	"Yonggang Luo" <luoyonggang@gmail.com>,
	"Thomas Huth" <thuth@redhat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows
Date: Thu,  5 May 2022 09:48:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220505074841.406185-1-thuth@redhat.com> (raw)

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



             reply	other threads:[~2022-05-05  7:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-05  7:48 Thomas Huth [this message]
2022-05-05  8:14 ` [PATCH] docs/about: Update the support statement for Windows Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-05 11:55   ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-05 14:12     ` Thomas Huth
2022-05-05 15:09       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2022-05-12  6:59         ` Thomas Huth
2022-05-05  8:27 ` Peter Maydell
2022-05-05  9:14   ` Stefan Weil via

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