[Vm-dev] Raise minimum supported Windows API from XP to Vista (was: Identify console executable and standard one)

[Vincent.Blondeau at lamresearch.com]

Hi Alistair,

I made some code that have the same goal, but I am also stuck to identify the Cygwin and minty terminals, I tried the approach with the name of the pipes, but the pipes have always the same name. You can take a look at my code there:
https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm/compare/Cog...VincentBlondeau:addStdoutIsConsolePrimitive
Have you been thinking to another solution?

Which function do you need that is not existing under XP?

Thanks,

Cheers,
Vincent

-----Original Message-----
From: Vm-dev [mailto:vm-dev-bounces at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Alistair Grant
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 2:47
To: Open Smalltalk Virtual Machine Development Discussion <vm-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
Subject: [Vm-dev] Raise minimum supported Windows API from XP to Vista (was: Identify console executable and standard one)

 
Hi Everyone,


I have some test code that correctly identifies whether stdin on Windows is a console or redirected, in both windows command terminals (cmd.exe) and cygwin mintty (the current code only works for cmd.exe, not for cygwin terminals).

However it relies on the Windows Vista API, i.e. _WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600, and at the moment we set the minimum supported version to Windows XP (0x0501).

Since Windows XP is no longer supported, I can't see any problem with raising the minimum version to Windows Vista (which also isn't supported, but should give us maximum compatibility), but wanted to check first.

Are there any objections to raising the minimum API level to Windows Vista?



Thanks,
Alistair