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Subject: Re: [Bitcoin-development] Warning message when running wallet in
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On 4/16/2014 12:41 PM, Chris Williams wrote:
> It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we say that we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a platform, and if an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something to address it.  So, it becomes a test and support issue, not a security issue.
>
> That's why it doesn't make sense to support an OS platform that the original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves.
>
> On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> wrote:
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>> On 04/16/2014 09:27 AM, Kevin wrote:
>>> Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, "Such
>>> and such will not run on windows xp?"
>> It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe to
>> be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet
>> functionality that people should be careful about. We're talking about
>> such a small intersection of people who are running XP, have systems
>> powerful enough to run Bitcoin Core, and use the wallet functionality.
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Okay, so we simply stop supporting it.  Should bitcoin pull support 
altogether?


-- 
Kevin


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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/16/2014 12:41 PM, Chris Williams
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      <pre wrap="">It may not be our place to say whether XP is secure or not, but if we say that we support it then we have to run test passes against XP as a platform, and if an XP user reports a bug, then we have to do something to address it.  So, it becomes a test and support issue, not a security issue.

That&#8217;s why it doesn&#8217;t make sense to support an OS platform that the original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves.

On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mark@monetize.io">&lt;mark@monetize.io&gt;</a> wrote:

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          <pre wrap="">Should we then add an alert message to wallet installers such as, "Such
and such will not run on windows xp?"
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It's not really our place to police that ... plus it's perfectly safe to
be running Bitcoin Core as a full node on XP. It's just the wallet
functionality that people should be careful about. We're talking about
such a small intersection of people who are running XP, have systems
powerful enough to run Bitcoin Core, and use the wallet functionality.

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    Okay, so we simply stop supporting it.&nbsp; Should bitcoin pull support
    altogether?<br>
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Kevin
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