Windows Vista support

[MartinMa]

Looking at atom-shell it seems (theoretically) to be able to run on Windows Vista (Extended support ends on 11 April 2017). There are two function exports, which Vista can't handle, namely RegisterTouchWindow and CloseTouchInputHandle, both in user32.dll.

These dependencies seem to stem from libchromiumcontent.
You can test it by looking at chromiumcontent.dll located at
atom-shell/vendor/brightray/vendor/download/libchromiumcontent/Release using the Dependency Walker.

I think it's just a matter of setting _WIN32_WINNT and WINVER to 0x0600 instead of 0x0602 in the corresponding .gypi file. Maybe brightray.gypi?

Chromium and Node.js are built to run on Vista. Is there anything that speaks against atom-shell being able to run on it, too? I'm fine with Atom to only support Win7+, but atom-shell is so versatile.

Thoughts?

[dustinblackman]

Is this issue still relevant? Or have something else caused Electron to not run on Vista?

[anaisbetts]

If those functions are exported, that means someone is using them. While it's probably possible to get Atom Shell to run on Vista, I am 👎 into putting any work into supporting these dead operating systems.

[zcbenz]

We don't have plan to support Vista.