Re: Raising minimum target Windows version

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2023-10-04 08:45:00

Andrey Semashev wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm considering raising minimum target Windows version for my libraries
> to at least Windows 7. This means dropping workarounds for missing
> WinAPI functions that are present (but, for a very long time now,
> untested) for Windows XP.
...
> Comments? Objections? Counter-proposals? I'm especially interested in
> comments regarding Windows 7 as the new baseline - am I being too
> conservative?

FWIW, people are still using Boost in $current_year to target Windows XP.
Yes, this surprised me as well.

https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/113
https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/111
https://github.com/boostorg/system/issues/110

Note that 113 is specifically about building Filesystem.