Drop support for long-obsolete versions of Windows

When we started writing Tor, Windows 98 was still a going concern. Now... it is less so.

We should identify and drop support code for all windows versions before Windows XP. This is mainly going to be a matter of identifying cases where we use LoadLibrary and GetProcAddress to find always-present-functions in always-present DLLs, and looking for opportunities to move from old busted APIs to fresh new ones.

(Dropping support for windows XP is a separate ticket.)

changed milestone to %Tor: unspecified

added cleanup component::core tor/tor milestone::Tor: unspecified priority::medium severity::normal status::new technical-debt tor-relay type::defect windows labels

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Keywords: tor-relay windows cleanup deleted, cleanup, windows, tor-relay, 026-triaged-1 added

Cleanup is nice, but does not block 0.2.6, deferring. It may be a nice volunteer project.

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Milestone: Tor: 0.2.6.x-final to Tor: 0.2.???
Keywords: 026-triaged-1 deleted, lorax added

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Cc: N/A to mcs

These may be worth looking at for 0.2.7.

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Milestone: Tor: 0.2.??? to Tor: 0.2.7.x-final

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Status: new to assigned

Marking triaged-out items from first round of 0.2.7 triage.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, 027-triaged-1-out added

Make all non-needs_review, non-needs_revision, 027-triaged-1-out items belong to 0.2.???

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Milestone: Tor: 0.2.7.x-final to Tor: 0.2.???

Milestone renamed

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Milestone: Tor: 0.2.??? to Tor: 0.3.???

Finally admitting that 0.3.??? was a euphemism for Tor: unspecified all along.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, tor-03-unspecified-201612 added
Milestone: Tor: 0.3.??? to Tor: unspecified

Remove an old triaging keyword.

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Keywords: tor-03-unspecified-201612 deleted, N/A added

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Keywords: N/A deleted, 027-triaged-in added

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Keywords: 027-triaged-in deleted, N/A added

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Keywords: 027-triaged-1-out deleted, N/A added

Change the status of all assigned/accepted Tor tickets with owner="" to "new".

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Status: assigned to new

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Reviewer: N/A to N/A
Keywords: lorax deleted, technical-debt added
Severity: N/A to Normal
Sponsor: N/A to N/A

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Username: Vort

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Latest version of Tor (0.3.0.8) already fails to start on Win 98 SE: win98_tor_error.png So it would be great to remove it from the list here: https://www.torproject.org/download/download.html

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Same error for Windows ME: winme_tor_error.png​

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Username: Vort

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Same error for Windows 2000: win2000_tor_error.png

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Cc: mcs to mcs, vvort@yandex.ru

mentioned in issue #11445 (moved)

mentioned in issue #13755 (moved)

mentioned in issue #13758 (moved)

mentioned in issue #22798 (moved)

moved to tpo/core/tor#11444 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/core/tor#11445 (closed)

mentioned in issue tpo/core/tor#13755 (closed)