Deprecation of Windows 7 support

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Deprecation of Windows 7 support #2696

Open lazka opened 2 years ago

lazka commented 2 years ago

This is regarding msys packages, so pacman, bash etc

cygwin is planning to remove support for anything older than Windows 8.1 next year. Since we try to follow cygwin upstream as close as possible this means we will also drop support for Windows 7/8 sometime around the end of 2022.

https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2021-October/010271.html

For the status of Windows 7/8 support for mingw packages see https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/10088

lazka commented 2 years ago

Two things that need/could be done here:

[x] Print a warning message when starting an interactive shell in case of Windows 7
[ ] Finish https://github.com/msys2/msys2-archive so that users can continue using the last supported version for one more year, if they really need to.

rubyFeedback commented 2 years ago

Ah, I did not notice your last comment here, so there will be an archive - I was unaware of that. So my other comment in the related issue tracker is moot.