[GNC] GnuCash 3.902 released

[Geert Janssens]

Right, you can buy extended support for Windows 7.

In the same spirit you may find a developer that's willing to keep gnucash running on Windows 
7 for you as well for a price. We won't do it in our volunteer free time as we don't get enough 
return on investment on it (in non-currency terms, like advancement of the project, developer 
satisfaction,...)

Again as I said, we're not actively breaking gnucash on Windows 7 yet, so I expect it to still run 
just fine for quite a while. Heck it might even still run ok on Windows XP for all I know.

However if at some point we have to make a change that would break Windows 7 (because we 
start using some code that doesn't run on it) we will simply do so. As of 4.x there will no 
longer be the "runs on Windows 7" stamp of approval. 

Regards,

Geert

Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 18:34:53 CEST schreef wheelercsg-lists--- via gnucash-user:
> Actually, Windows 7 is not out of support yet. Microsoft is currently
> providing Extended Security Updates with purchase of the necessary
> license. I don't think I am the only one applying ESU updates to my Win
> 7 machines...
> 
> On 2020-04-28 11:41 a.m., gnucash-user-request at gnucash.org wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2020 15:58:11 +0200
> > From: Geert Janssens<geert.gnucash at kobaltwit.be>
> > To:gnucash-user at gnucash.org
> > Subject: Re: [GNC] GnuCash 3.902 released
> > Message-ID:<3181284.WzN4YfKl8H at legolas.kobaltwit.lan>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> > 
> > Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 14:41:20 CEST schreef Gary Holtum:
> >> Why will it not run on Win7 64 bit?
> >> Gary
> > 
> > Windows 7 is beyond its support date. Hence we no longer support it. If
> > you continue to use Windows 7, that's at your own risk, both in terms of
> > not getting Windows bug fixes and one day gnucash not starting any more
> > on that platform.
> > 
> > Having said that, it will most likely still run on Windows 7. We haven't
> > done anything in particular yet to not do so.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Geert
> 
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