[texcollection] TeX Collection upload from April 6

[Manfred Lotz]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 10:44:40 +0200
Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 08:59:00PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 01:02:03PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:  
> > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 07:20:16PM +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:  
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > Newest upload of TeX Collection from April 6 at
> > > > http://tug.org/~manfred/ contains latest fixes which (we are
> > > > confident) solve the windows problems.  
> > > 
> > > Just for completeness: I just did a full installation of TeX Live
> > > on windows 10.  
> > 
> > I also retested setup/texcollection.exe, on 64-bit windows 7, I got
> > a message about a missing dll:
> > 
> > The program can't start because api-ms-win-crt-conio-l1-0.dll is
> > missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this
> > problem.  
> 
> But I guess many users will have this dll already from installing
> other software. E.g., Phil Taylor's screenshot shows a successfully
> started texcollection.exe on windows 7.
> 

I naively thought that Windows 7 is something from the past, and no
longer supported by Microsoft.

So, should (must) texlive support Windows 7 officially?

-- 
Manfred