A Breezy status update

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 09:17:48AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: "Martin (gzlist)" <gzlist at googlemail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 21:18:26 +0100
> > 
> > On 15/06/2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > So you actually removed support for Windows 9X, not for W2K and XP, is
> > > that right?
> > 
> > Yes, but we've also updated dependencies and made a whole bunch of
> > other changes.

> I don't think I understand what this entails.  Can you give more
> details about that?

We have made a large number of changes. Since we're not testing on
Windows XP we don't know if we haven't accidentally broken support of
Breezy for Windows XP.

> > > Will there not be 32-bit builds as well?  If so, you lose XP just
> > > because of that.
> > 
> > There was a 64-bit XP once - but yes, this and the other reasons
> > mentioned is why I'm saying promising more is unrealistic.
> 
> Does that mean there will be no more 32-bit builds?  Because AFAIK
> there are 32-bit versions of Windows 7, at least.  Are you going to
> stop supporting them as well?

We haven't decided what kind of binary packages we'll build ourselves for
releases, but it's probably going to be fewer than for Bazaar.
Maintaining these builds and testing them takes up a lot of time.

I hope others who are interested in builds for other platforms can
help out.

Jelmer
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