From 5c9685143171f0d424d2f40417b54bc0efa951f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jehan Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2023 23:37:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] devel-docs: for the 3.0 series, Win 10 becomes our minimal support. After discussions on IRC with ender/Jernej and frogonia: * exchndl.dll (drmingw) requires dbgcore.dll and dbghelp.dll which seem to ship with win10+, but not win7 (we don't know for Win8). So for Win7, Jernej had to manually add it back (otherwise, building then running on Win10, it looks fine, but GIMP fails to start on Win7). * MSYS2 dropped Win7 support anyway and supports now Win 8.1+. See: https://www.msys2.org/docs/windows_support/ So even though it looks like GIMP works fine on Win7 (after special-casing the 2 DLLs above by adding them manually in the installed files), there might be unforeseen issues in the long run. * Win7 official support by Microsoft now ended. And Win8 support is soon to be (it actually already has, "except for Server 2012 [based on Win8], which's supported for another 2 months"). Win8 never had much adoption anyway. * frogonia confirms they didn't see many Win 7 reports, if at all, in the last year. So based on all these, and in order not to make our life over-complicated, we drop Win 7/8 support for the next 2.99 versions and for the upcoming stable 3.0 series. Though we keep support to these versions in the 2.10 series, in order not to disrupt current usage too much. --- devel-docs/os-support.txt | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/devel-docs/os-support.txt b/devel-docs/os-support.txt index 1275f24b88..69e61d436d 100644 --- a/devel-docs/os-support.txt +++ b/devel-docs/os-support.txt @@ -18,9 +18,15 @@ After GIMP 3.0 release, we might get back to depend on Debian Testing. ### macOS Compatibility with 10.13 and over. -64-bit only. + +Hardware: +* x86_64 (Intel) +* ARM 64-bit (Apple Silicon) ### Windows -Windows 7 and over. -32 and 64-bit. +Windows 10 and over. + +Hardware: +* x86 32 and 64-bit +* ARM 64-bit (experimental)