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From: Michael Paquier <[email protected]>
To: Thomas Munro <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Gustafsson <[email protected]>
Cc: Juan José Santamaría Flecha <[email protected]>
Cc: Postgres hackers <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 (Vista) as minimal runtime in 16~
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2022 14:47:36 +0900
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On Thu, Jun 09, 2022 at 04:55:45PM +1200, Thomas Munro wrote:
> The Cygwin stuff in installation.sgml also mentions NT, 2000, XP, but
> it's not clear from the phrasing if it meant "and later" or "and
> earlier", so I'm not sure if it needs adjusting or removing...

Right.  We could just remove the entire mention to "NT, 2000 or XP"
instead?  There would be no loss in clarity IMO.

> I think we can drop mention of Itanium (RIP): the ancient versions of
> Windows that could run on that arch are desupported with your patch.
> It might be more relevant to say that we can't yet run on ARM, and
> Windows 11 is untested by us, but let's fix those problems instead of
> documenting them :-)

Okay to remove the Itanium part for me.

> Is the mention of "64-Bit" in that title sounds a little anachronistic
> to me (isn't that the norm now?) but I'm not sure what to suggest.

Not sure.  I think that I would leave this part alone for now.

> There are more mentions of older Windows releases near the compiler
> stuff but perhaps your MSVC version vacuuming work will take care of
> those.

Yes, I have a few changes like the one in main.c for _M_AMD64.  Are
you referring to something else?
--
Michael


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