Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 2:27 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:

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> @@ -1757,7 +1757,7 @@ get_collation_actual_version(char collprovider,
> const char *collcollate)
> collcollate,
> GetLastError())));
> }
> - collversion = psprintf("%d.%d,%d.%d",
> + collversion = psprintf("%ld.%ld,%ld.%ld",
> (version.dwNLSVersion >> 8) & 0xFFFF,
> version.dwNLSVersion & 0xFF,
> (version.dwDefinedVersion >> 8) & 0xFFFF,
>
> Is this change still required even if we bump MIN_WINNT to 0x0600 for
> all the environments that include win32.h?

Right now we are ifdefing that code out for MinGW, so it's not a visible
issue, but it'll be when we do.

> At the end, this would
> mean dropping support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 as
> run-time environments as listed in [1], which are not supported
> officially since 2014 (even if there have been some patches for
> some critical issues). So I'd be fine to raise the bar for v16~,
> particularly as this would allow us to get rid of this code related to
> locales.
>

Even Windows Server 2008 [1] is at its End of Life, so this should surprise
no one.

[1]
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/troubleshoot/windows-server/windows-server-eos-faq/end-of-support-windows-server-2008-2008r2

Regards,

Juan José Santamaría Flecha

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