<div dir="ltr">Nobody objected to raising the bar, so I think we can go ahead and do this. Keeping the XP support until 3.7 ships seems reasonable as it's less disruptive.<div><br></div><div>Should we consider bypassing Vista and jumping to 7 as the lowest supported Windows version as David suggested? I think we should document 7 as the recommended baseline. After we start using some of the newer APIs, we can see if users complain and evaluate the burden of maintaining Vista support at that time.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Greg Bedwell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregbedwell@gmail.com" target="_blank">gregbedwell@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>It looks like this conversation stalled. I have a local patch that I'd like to send upstream (automatically generating Windows crash dumps on clang/LLVM crashes) that makes use of a Windows API function that requires _WIN32_WINNT set to 0x0600 at minimum so I'd like to restart the conversation!</div><div><br></div><div>As there have so far been no objections that I've seen and we're branching imminently, it feels like a perfect time to make this change as soon as the release branch is taken, and adding a release note for 3.7 to the effect of it being the final version supporting XP. I don't think there's been a clear conclusion on what we should raise it to though.</div><div><br></div><div>Any thoughts on this?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>-Greg</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 31 October 2014 at 16:30, Robinson, Paul <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Paul_Robinson@playstation.sony.com" target="_blank">Paul_Robinson@playstation.sony.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our current status is that we require VS 2012 to build LLVM, and VS 2012 only runs on Vista+, but it has the ability produce binaries that run on XP. During the C++11-pocalypse, users expressed interest in keeping this working. I'm proposing
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