# HG changeset patch
# User Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
# Date 1537297488 -7200
# Node ID 482fa4c640fc11e33643269ed524384b7d7e3b2e
# Parent  b7ec445e40def2abbb7ad2301815aeac1d507007
doc: Update statement about target platforms.

Reported by Simon Sobisch.

* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Update. Mention
restrictions on MSVC versions.

diff -r b7ec445e40de -r 482fa4c640fc ChangeLog
--- a/ChangeLog	Tue Sep 18 20:18:38 2018 +0200
+++ b/ChangeLog	Tue Sep 18 21:04:48 2018 +0200
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2018-09-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
+
+	doc: Update statement about target platforms.
+	Reported by Simon Sobisch.
+	* doc/gnulib-intro.texi (Target Platforms): Update. Mention
+	restrictions on MSVC versions.
+
 2018-09-18  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
 	posix_spawn tests: Fix link error on 64-bit Cygwin.
diff -r b7ec445e40de -r 482fa4c640fc doc/gnulib-intro.texi
--- a/doc/gnulib-intro.texi	Tue Sep 18 20:18:38 2018 +0200
+++ b/doc/gnulib-intro.texi	Tue Sep 18 21:04:48 2018 +0200
@@ -104,11 +104,11 @@
 platforms are also low priority; bug fixes for these platforms can
 take longer.
 
-As of 2016, the list of supported platforms is the following:
+As of 2018, the list of supported platforms is the following:
 
 @itemize
 @item
-glibc systems.  With glibc 2.15 or newer, they are frequently tested.
+glibc systems.  With glibc 2.19 or newer, they are frequently tested.
 @c [Not very relevant in the long term.]
 @c The distributions Ubuntu, Fedora, RHEL, Arch Linux are frequently tested.
 @c CentOS is occasionally tested.
@@ -121,19 +121,21 @@
 glibc on kFreeBSD is rarely tested.
 @end itemize
 @item
-Mac OS X.  In versions 10.11, it's occasionally tested.  In version
+Mac OS X.  In versions 10.13, it's occasionally tested.  In version
 10.5, it's rarely tested.
 @item
-FreeBSD 9.1 or newer is occasionally tested.
+FreeBSD 11.0 or newer is occasionally tested.
 @item
-OpenBSD 5.8 or newer is occasionally tested.
+OpenBSD 6.1 or newer is occasionally tested.
+@item
+NetBSD 7.0 or newer is occasionally tested.
 @item
 AIX 7.1 is occasionally tested.
 @item
 Solaris 10 and 11 are occasionally tested.  Solaris 9 and older are rarely
 tested and low priority.
 @item
-Cygwin 2.6 is occasionally tested.  Cygwin 1.7.x is rarely tested.
+Cygwin 2.9 is occasionally tested.  Cygwin 1.7.x is rarely tested.
 @item
 mingw is occasionally tested.  But note that some modules are currently
 unsupported on mingw: @code{mgetgroups}, @code{getugroups}, @code{idcache},
@@ -145,9 +147,9 @@
 @item
 GNU Hurd 0.7 is rarely tested.
 @item
-NetBSD 7.0 or newer is rarely tested.
-@item
 Native Windows, with MSVC as compiler, is rarely tested and low priority.
+The versions of MSVC that are supported are MSVC 14 (Visual Studio 2015) or
+newer.
 @item
 @c There is musl-gcc on Ubuntu, and Alpine Linux 3.3.3.
 musl libc is rarely tested.
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@
 HP-UX 11.31 is very rarely tested.
 @item
 @c IRIX 6.5 cc has no option for C99 support. You would need to use gcc instead.
-IRIX 6.5 is no longer tested.
+IRIX 6.5 is no very rarely tested.
 @item
 OSF/1 5.1 is no longer tested.
 @item