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You=92re right. That=92s a huge oversight. I think any software =
product you=92ve ever considered installing has a section that says
=93Hey, we want this much ram on your system, this much disk space, this =
processor, etc=94.
Otherwise, you=92re just setting yourself up for a bad user experience =
from people with marginal machines.
On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:44 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> wrote:
> We don't support XP. In fact we don't support *any* distribution, but =
I
> will assume you mean "provide a binary which runs on X." Can you find
> any reference to Windows XP on the website? I can't.
>=20
> On 04/16/2014 09:41 AM, 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.
>>=20
>> That=92s why it doesn=92t make sense to support an OS platform that =
the original vendor (MS) no longer supports themselves.
>>=20
>> On Apr 16, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Mark Friedenbach <mark@monetize.io> =
wrote:
>>=20
>>> 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?"
>>>=20
>>> 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.
>>>=20
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