Opened 5 years ago
Last modified 3 years ago
#13755 new task
Declare that Windows XP and earlier are not officially supported.
Reported by: | yawning | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | Medium | Milestone: | Tor: unspecified |
Component: | Core Tor/Tor | Version: | Tor: unspecified |
Severity: | Normal | Keywords: | tor-relay, windows, documentation, deprecation |
Cc: | mcs | Actual Points: | |
Parent ID: | Points: | ||
Reviewer: | Sponsor: |
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Change History (13)
comment:1 Changed 5 years ago by
Cc: | mcs added |
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comment:2 Changed 5 years ago by
comment:3 follow-up: 4 Changed 5 years ago by
Milestone: | Tor: 0.2.6.x-final → Tor: 0.2.7.x-final |
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If only we were lazy! That would make all our problems easy to fix: we would only have to work harder.
Unfortunately, we are working at capacity, and we need to decide where to spend our time to provide the most benefit. Since Windows XP is very old (13 years), and no longer getting patches, it's not a good target for folks who'd like to remain secure.
And testing for old releases and earlier doesn't come free. Maintaining compatibility with ancient versions of Windows prevents us from using various features provided by newer releases, or makes it require more effort to do so.
That said, I don't think that this is the series where we should drop XP. It's still got something like a 17% market share among desktop users, even though everybody running it really should have upgraded some while ago. So I'll defer this to 0.2.7.
But as for dropping Windows 98 and 2000, that's an even clearer case. Right now, according to most surveys, they amount to less than a twentieth of a percent of desktops on the internet, between them.
comment:4 Changed 5 years ago by
Replying to nickm:
But as for dropping Windows 98
win98 forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111
comment:5 Changed 5 years ago by
I'll create tor fork with win98 support!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Join me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
comment:6 Changed 5 years ago by
Status: | new → assigned |
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comment:7 Changed 5 years ago by
Keywords: | 027-deferrable added |
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Milestone: | Tor: 0.2.7.x-final → Tor: 0.2.??? |
We need to look at our install-base here, probably.
comment:9 Changed 3 years ago by
Keywords: | tor-03-unspecified-201612 added |
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Milestone: | Tor: 0.3.??? → Tor: unspecified |
Finally admitting that 0.3.??? was a euphemism for Tor: unspecified all along.
comment:10 Changed 3 years ago by
Keywords: | tor-03-unspecified-201612 removed |
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Remove an old triaging keyword.
comment:11 Changed 3 years ago by
Keywords: | 027-deferrable removed |
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comment:12 Changed 3 years ago by
Status: | assigned → new |
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Change the status of all assigned/accepted Tor tickets with owner="" to "new".
comment:13 Changed 3 years ago by
Keywords: | deprecation added |
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Severity: | → Normal |
Why stop building and testing for Windows 98, 2000, XP ? Lazyness ?