+1 On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:08 PM kellen sunderland < kellen.sunderl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> +1 (non-binding) > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 1:18 AM Anirudh Acharya <anirudhk...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > +1 for discontinuing. > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:11 PM Naveen Swamy <mnnav...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > +1 to stop supporting Win7 > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:54 PM Lin Yuan <apefor...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Dear Community, > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Currently, our MXNet installation guide for Windows does not work for > > > > Windows 7. e.g. Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 is not supported on > > Windows > > > 7 > > > > < > > > > > > > > > > https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs/support/vs2015/received-error-specified-program-requires-newer-version-windows/ > > > > >. > > > > In addition, MSFT ended “Mainstream” support for Windows 7 in 2015 ( > > > > > > > > > > https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/13853/windows-lifecycle-fact-sheet > > > > ). > > > > Therefore, it is not possible for developers to build MXNet and > verify > > > the > > > > fix on Windows 7 platform. Given that there have been several issues > > > about > > > > MXNet error on Windows 7 (issue#9271 > > > > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/9271>, issue #8921 > > > > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/8921>, issue > #11163 > > > > <https://github.com/apache/incubator-mxnet/issues/11163>), it will > > even > > > > add > > > > more burden on developers in the future if we were to continue > > supporting > > > > Windows 7. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I therefore would like to propose that we discontinue the support of > > > MXNet > > > > on Windows 7 in the next release. > > > > > > > > > > > > Specifically, this means the following required actions: > > > > > > > > 1) state the discontinuation of Windows 7 support in the release note > > > > > > > > 2) update the MXNet webpage if Windows version is mentioned. > > > > > > > > 3) update the open Github issues related to Windows 7 > > > > > > > > > > > > Please share your thoughts about this proposal and/or suggest if > there > > is > > > > any other missing action item from the above. > > > > > > > > > > > > Best Regards, > > > > > > > > > > > > Lin > > > > > > > > > >
