Hi Alexandre,
On Mon, 11 Oct 2021 at 19:29, Alexandre Julliard julliard@winehq.org wrote:
Emil Velikov emil.l.velikov@gmail.com writes:
Hey everyone,
Here's a small series which removes compatibility glue for ancient distros. In particular - we bump to using 16 year old libxslt and 5 year old gnutls.
Amazing "update" right :-)
Joking aside, these are covered by all supported distros, including the distro packages linked on the winehq.org site.
In general we don't do that sort of thing. If you are making other changes to a piece of code and the backwards compatibility code gets in the way you can consider removing it, but otherwise you should just leave it alone.
Besides, there's no such thing as a list of "supported distros". As far as reasonably possible, we try to support anything that actual users are using; and we do have people using more than 5 year old installs.
So you are saying that you aim to keep wine working on distributions which are no longer supported by their respective vendors/communities? It does seem strange to keep 5+ and in some cases 15+ year old workarounds, but hey-ho.
If anything I got inspired by your commits, which are removing fallbacks assuming common Unix functionality. Although I don't know if said code was getting in the way, since the commit messages are quite sparse.
Out of curiosity; Is there a genuine set of people who use _latest_ wine with such old distros or is that a case of "I know someone who might".
Thanks Emil