Re: Clarifying Windows support

[Jean Abou Samra]

Le 15/02/2022 à 21:33, Wol a écrit :
> On 15/02/2022 07:25, Jonas Hahnfeld via Discussions on LilyPond 
> development wrote:
> > I like Karlin's proposal of "supported on current versions of Windows"
> > because more changes will happen in the future, even dropping support
> > for certain editions of Windows 10. Without testing on every one of
> > them, we won't necessarily notice until some user does.
>
> Put dates and versions in. Okay, that means yet another thing to 
> update for each release, but something like "lily 2.22 released jan 
> 2022 supported on Windows 10 build 1904 and later".
>
> If you look at the kernel.org linux raid wiki, there's a fair few 
> dates there which means you have a good idea which statements are 
> up-to-date and which are, for want of a better description, closer to 
> cobweb than web.


The problem is not just remembering to update with every release
(which, given how it is currently, is already problematic). It is
also to know what versions of Windows exactly it works on. For that
you need a panel of people with various versions of Windows testing
releases. Very few in the development team are running Windows, so
we'd need user input. I don't think it brings a lot of value compared
to a deliberately vague statement. In the end, what we support is
what LilyPond gets tested on (intersected with what it is reasonable
to support given technical background).

Jean