[texcollection] TeX Collection upload from April 6

[Manfred Lotz]

On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 11:41:22 +0200
Siep Kroonenberg <siepo at bitmuis.nl> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:35:30AM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 08, 2020 at 11:17:49AM +0200, Manfred Lotz wrote:  
> > > 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?  
> > 
> > As far as I am concerned: we support it as long as it is not too
> > much trouble, since it is still used by a lot of people.
> > 
> > I ran into this problem because my windows test machines are
> > extremely barebones virtual machines with no software installed
> > beyond qemu and spice guest tools, and therefore no optional
> > redistributable dlls. As I wrote, many w7 users may not run into it.
> > 
> > Anyhow, w7 users have the workaround option to run protext/setup or
> > texlive/install-tl-windows directly.
> > 
> > So it is fine with me if you decide to go ahead anyway.  
> 

I was just asking. I am not the guy to decide anything regarding
texlive. This is Karl and team.

Honestly, it sounds ok (and good) to me to say "we support is as long
as it is not too much trouble...".


> I forgot that it is also a w8 problem, which somewhat weakens the
> case for ignoring. But still there is a workaround, and most w8
> users will have moved to w10.
> 

Yeah, as said this is Karl and team to decide if resp. what to do.

-- 
Manfred