Re: Supported Windows version for the Windows installer

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:

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> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Jul 10, 2017 at 9:53 AM, Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> wrote:
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>>> On Sat, Jul 8, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
>>> wrote:
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>>>> On Friday, April 28, 2017, Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum <
>>>> adsmail(at)wars-nicht(dot)de> wrote:
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>>>>> The Windows download site:
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>>>>> https://www.postgresql.org/download/windows/
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>>>>>
>>>>> Does not list the supported Windows versions. Someone just sent a
>>>>> question to de(at)postgresql(dot)org, asking if Windows 10 is supported.
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>>>>> Can the website be updated, and include the supported Windows versions?
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>>>>>
>>>> (Why yes, I am catching up to old email, what makes you think that?)
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>>>> 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?
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>>> 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.
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>> Not sure that's more messy than we have for others?
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> Pretty sure it would be. I can work up a patch though if you want.
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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?

> I've asked the EDB web team to add a prominent link to the download
>>> landing page to that info.
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>> If it can be made API/feed-style that'd be even better.
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> That would be unlikely to happen; our web team have a TODO list a mile
> long as it is.
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>
Who doesn't :)

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