NEWS, README.win: Officially drop support for non-C99 compilers

We're considering MSVC 2015 to be sufficiently close to C99 for our
purposes, and we now have CI for it, so we can easily check whether any
desired C99 feature works. Other pre-C99 compilers are obsolete.

Resolves: dbus#404
Signed-off-by: Simon McVittie <smcv@collabora.com>

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4ebcd9f625bbfa52c3f7eac96029a89ec15038dd..fa98354f6ffab1237737eaaf894dd8f095d87e24 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,6 +1,13 @@
 dbus 1.15.0 (UNRELEASED)
 ========================
 
+Dependencies:
+
+• dbus now requires either a C99 compiler (such as gcc or clang),
+  or Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 or later. Some workarounds for
+  pre-C99 environments are currently still present, but we plan to
+  remove them during this development cycle.
+
 Feature removal:
 
 • Remove support for the obsolete pam_console and pam_foreground modules

diff --git a/README.win b/README.win
index 8a5b3c0a91bb81e76bcefd931072fe24f5ab5e32..0ed83e035078fa7fdacb4023f051f9c6b636707d 100644 (file)
--- a/README.win
+++ b/README.win
@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ test not running yet and there is help needed to get them running.
 
 Supported compilers
 -------------------
-On windows Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 (Express and professional variants)
-and mingw-w64|32 are known to work.
+Building dbus for Windows requires either Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
+or later, or a recent mingw-w64 compiler.
+
+Compilers older than the ones we test in continuous integration are
+not supported.
 
 Building
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