Re: Remove support for Visual Studio 2013

On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 10:06:50AM +0200, Juan José Santamaría Flecha wrote:
> On Wed, May 18, 2022 at 2:27 AM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>> 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

Btw, I am going to spawn a new thread for this specific change rather
than forcing people to dig into this one as it is independent. Better
to do that a bit in advance of the development cycle for v16, as it
is usually good to clean up such things sooner than later..
--
Michael