beaker doesn't support XP

[andika207]

it doens't support Windows XP
I won't support this project with my money $$

[pfrazee]

I haven't tried Beaker on XP but I won't say I'm surprised!

I am sorry we don't have XP support -- it's a great OS -- but it's a fairly old OS with a pretty small userbase, so I can't dedicate resources to it. If anybody can supply fixes for XP I'll be happy to merge.

[andika207]

@pfrazee Most of the time the excuse is that XP is from 2001 and it's too old when actually the latest version of the APIs and calls is from about 2008 so not so terribly old as people might think....

W7 came out in 2009 and with regard to the small userbase it's because only a handful of web browsers do keep the support up for XP.

all this said XP has been getting official updates till April 2019, just 8 months before W7 EOL.

[sentialx]

Electron does not and won't support Windows XP
https://github.com/wexond/desktop/issues/393
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/5676

[andika207]

@sentialx why are you posting this here ?
you are even linking a message of @weolar who claimed Electron 5 was compatible with XP.

[sentialx]

Electron 5 while we have 10

[andika207]

@sentialx Nothing stop you from using old electron 5 to compile code for XP.
You don't support XP because you don't want Not because it can't be done

[limeschool]

This matter is resolved. Electron has not supported Windows XP and will continue to not do so, thus making Beaker on Windows XP impossible. You can dualboot with a modern distribution of Linux, or update your version of Windows, to run Beaker on your PC.