Re: Supported Windows version for the Windows installer

From: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: "Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum" <adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Supported Windows version for the Windows installer
Date: 2017-07-11 16:02:47
Message-ID: CA+OCxoy8h-PL56xR6HXK-jq-vwSZutEtMTR0_+L2D3Nd2Tc7=Q@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:23 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, April 28, 2017, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <
>>>>> adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The Windows download site:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does not list the supported Windows versions. Someone just sent a
>>>>>> question to de(at)postgresql(dot)org, asking if Windows 10 is supported.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Can the website be updated, and include the supported Windows
>>>>>> versions?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> (Why yes, I am catching up to old email, what makes you think that?)
>>>>>
>>>>> This seems like a very good idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> Dave, do you think this is something that's doable? This is not
>>>>> information that changes *that* often after all, it can probably be
>>>>> reasonably maintained manually if you can get it onto the appropriate
>>>>> checklist?
>>>>>
>>>>> If it's too much to easily update manually, can we set up some sort of
>>>>> feed from the EDB pages that we can pull and automate the update?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It would probably be kinda messy to try to put the info on that page.
>>>> It can be found at https://www.enterprisedb.com/s
>>>> ervices/edb-supported-products-and-platforms#postgresql.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure that's more messy than we have for others?
>>>
>>
>> Pretty sure it would be. I can work up a patch though if you want.
>>
>
> Sure, please do.
>
> I was envisioning something like a simple matrix showing earliest and
> newest version of Windows supported for each major tree or something like
> that. But perhaps you had something more detailed in mind?
>

How about the attached?

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