Hi Sheng, Thanks for raising this concern. The problem now is that we cannot even build MXNet on Windows 7 because the build process requires MS VS 2015 w/ update 3 which is incompatible on Windows 7. This leaves many Windows 7 related open issues on github without any timely response. In my opinion, having no response to users' request is probably even worse than letting them know the limitation of OS support.
To minimize the impact to current Windows 7 users, we can provide PyPi package for Windows 7 in this release but defer the bug fix and feature enhancement to later Windows OS version. Based on users' feedbacks, we can then officially discontinue the Windows 7 support in the next MXNet release. I will appreciate your comments. Lin On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:37 PM Sheng Zha <[email protected]> wrote: > Are any of the votes based on any measure of user impact, if we indeed > decide not to fix the current problems? > > -sz > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:29 PM Hagay Lupesko <[email protected]> wrote: > > > +1 (non-binding) > > Thanks for raising this Lin! > > Are you suggesting to do it as part of MXNet 1.3? > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 9:14 AM Srivastava, Rohit Kumar < > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > On 8/29/18, 8:39 AM, "sandeep krishnamurthy" < > > [email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > +1 Thanks for bringing this up. > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 6:38 AM Marco de Abreu > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 1:08 PM kellen sunderland < > > > > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > +1 (non-binding) > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 29, 2018, 1:18 AM Anirudh Acharya < > > > [email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > +1 for discontinuing. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 4:11 PM Naveen Swamy < > > [email protected] > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > +1 to stop supporting Win7 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 3:54 PM Lin Yuan < > > [email protected]> > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Sandeep Krishnamurthy > > > > > > > > > > > >
