What version of Windows is Wine equivalent to these days ?

On Wed, Jul 1, 2015 at 2:35 PM, wm4 <[email protected]> wrote:
> We were discussing some necessary library-safety cleanups on
> #libav-devel. One of them is the removal of the "lock manager", which we
> all agreed that it must die. This would be pretty simple with pthreads
> and modern win32 APIs. But some of the win32 APIs which would make this
> easy are not available on XP, such as the InitOnce* group of functions.
>
> Windows XP is ancient, and despite its popularity is not even supported
> by Microsoft anymore. Windows 2003, which is on a similar level as XP
> in supported APIs, is also being killed of by Microsoft. (Extended
> support apparently ends in 13 days.)
>
> So the question is: would it be ok to finally drop XP support for the
> sake of cleaner and simpler code?
>
> (Besides, even if we're forced to implement extra hacks for XP
> compatibility, who is going to test it?)
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