From 1ec162b8c1abbf51e55d54c36d69a2bc90b991db Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Haible Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:04:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: Update statement about target platforms. Reported by Simon Sobisch. * doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Update. Mention restrictions on MSVC versions. --- ChangeLog | 7 +++++++ doc/gnulib-intro.texi | 20 +++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 9fe9596544..2661001fe6 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,10 @@ +2018-09-18 Bruno Haible + + doc: Update statement about target platforms. + Reported by Simon Sobisch. + * doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Update. Mention + restrictions on MSVC versions. + 2018-09-18 Bruno Haible posix_spawn tests: Fix link error on 64-bit Cygwin. diff --git a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi index bd68c66de9..ffb3100201 100644 --- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi +++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi @@ -104,11 +104,11 @@ we fix bugs when they are reported. Except that some rarely tested platforms are also low priority; bug fixes for these platforms can take longer. -As of 2016, the list of supported platforms is the following: +As of 2018, the list of supported platforms is the following: @itemize @item -glibc systems. With glibc 2.15 or newer, they are frequently tested. +glibc systems. With glibc 2.19 or newer, they are frequently tested. @c [Not very relevant in the long term.] @c The distributions Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Arch Linux are frequently tested. @c CentOS is occasionally tested. @@ -121,19 +121,21 @@ glibc on Linux is frequently tested. glibc on kFreeBSD is rarely tested. @end itemize @item -Mac OS X. In versions 10.11, it's occasionally tested. In version +Mac OS X. In versions 10.13, it's occasionally tested. In version 10.5, it's rarely tested. @item -FreeBSD 9.1 or newer is occasionally tested. +FreeBSD 11.0 or newer is occasionally tested. @item -OpenBSD 5.8 or newer is occasionally tested. +OpenBSD 6.1 or newer is occasionally tested. +@item +NetBSD 7.0 or newer is occasionally tested. @item AIX 7.1 is occasionally tested. @item Solaris 10 and 11 are occasionally tested. Solaris 9 and older are rarely tested and low priority. @item -Cygwin 2.6 is occasionally tested. Cygwin 1.7.x is rarely tested. +Cygwin 2.9 is occasionally tested. Cygwin 1.7.x is rarely tested. @item mingw is occasionally tested. But note that some modules are currently unsupported on mingw: @code{mgetgroups}, @code{getugroups}, @code{idcache}, @@ -145,9 +147,9 @@ Only the latest version of mingw is tested; older versions are not supported. @item GNU Hurd 0.7 is rarely tested. @item -NetBSD 7.0 or newer is rarely tested. -@item Native Windows, with MSVC as compiler, is rarely tested and low priority. +The versions of MSVC that are supported are MSVC 14 (Visual Studio 2015) or +newer. @item @c There is musl-gcc on Ubuntu, and Alpine Linux 3.3.3. musl libc is rarely tested. @@ -157,7 +159,7 @@ Minix 3.3.0 is rarely tested. HP-UX 11.31 is very rarely tested. @item @c IRIX 6.5 cc has no option for C99 support. You would need to use gcc instead. -IRIX 6.5 is no longer tested. +IRIX 6.5 is no very rarely tested. @item OSF/1 5.1 is no longer tested. @item -- 2.39.5