Remove EOL Windows Versions From Supported List. #18242
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As discussed on the mailing list here: https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258453.html This just removes the declaration that we support the very old versions of Windows that have long since been EOLed. For reference of problems related to maintaining the EOLed versions: Perl#4145 Perl#6080 Perl#7410 Perl#8502 Perl#9025 Perl#12431 Perl#14687
Grinnz
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Grinnz
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The documentation itself needs an explanation as to why these decisions would have been made. |
Where is this requirement documented? |
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I've opened another ticket to contain the various questions about OS support brought up by this issue:
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If someone wants to do this, they can steal from here or do a better job |
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As discussed on the P5P mailing list here:
https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2020/10/msg258453.html
This just removes the declaration that we support the very old versions of Windows that have long since been EOLed.
For reference, here's a short list of problems related to maintaining the EOLed Windows versions:
#4145
#6080
#7410
#8502
#9025
#12431
#14687
Note that this only removes the requirement that we must keep new versions of Perl fully functional on those old operating systems. It doesn't actually make them immediately non-functional.