Document VS2015 impact on very old Windows.

(In a XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE form.)

Also, note the effect of compilation with different Visual Studio
versions on Windows version compatibility in the source README, for the
sake of having it written down somewhere.

diff --git a/README b/README
index 00db28d24eb2d92e206816bf9f444664e74eeb03..ef931dd14405b688b39669a2f6de4d0aab8fceae 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,6 +21,10 @@ For building on Windows:
    7 (2003) and Visual Studio 14 (2015), so our guess is that it will
    probably build with versions in between those as well.
 
+   (The binaries from Visual Studio 14 are only compatible with
+   Windows XP and up. Binaries from Visual Studio 7 ought to work
+   with anything from Windows 95 onward.)
+
  - Inside the windows/MSVC subdirectory are MS Visual Studio project
    files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
    These have been tested on Visual Studio 7 and 10.
@@ -53,7 +57,7 @@ For building on Windows:
  - Inside the windows/DEVCPP subdirectory are Dev-C++ project
    files for doing GUI-based builds of the various PuTTY utilities.
 
-The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7) and Makefile.mgw
+The PuTTY team actively use Makefile.vc (with VC7/10) and Makefile.mgw
 (with mingw32), so we'll probably notice problems with those
 toolchains fairly quickly. Please report any problems with the other
 toolchains mentioned above.

diff --git a/doc/faq.but b/doc/faq.but
index 2ad5f18096dceeb8faf4239503461d39a84c11c8..6d3dc35bc242a7515eb699a276a8df06428dfabd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/faq.but
+++ b/doc/faq.but
@@ -216,12 +216,13 @@ seems to be working so far.
 Currently, release versions of PuTTY tools only run on Windows
 systems and Unix.
 
+\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: replace following two lines with:
+As of 0.68, the supplied PuTTY executables run on versions of
+Windows from XP onwards,}
 PuTTY runs on versions of Windows from Windows 95 onwards (but not
-the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see \k{faq-win31}), up to and including
-Windows 10; and we know of no reason why PuTTY should not continue
-to work on future versions of Windows.
-\#{XXX-REVIEW-BEFORE-RELEASE: should say something about w32old for
-pre-XP Windows}
+the 16-bit Windows 3.1; see \k{faq-win31}),
+up to and including Windows 10; and we know of no reason why PuTTY
+should not continue to work on future versions of Windows.
 
 The 32-bit Windows executables we provide for the \q{\i{x86}}
 processor architecture should also work fine on 64-bit processors