On 09/21/2017 08:16 PM, Haribabu Kommi wrote: > > > I was about to commit this after a good bit of testing when I > noticed this: > > + Building with <productname>Visual Studio 2017</productname> is > supported > + down to <productname>Windows 7 SP1</> and <productname>Windows > Server 2012 R2</>. > > I was able to build on Windows Server 2008 without a problem, so I'm > curious why we are saying it's not supported. > > > Thanks for the review. > > From the visual studio system requirements [1], in the section of > supported > operating systems, it is mentioned as windows 7 SP1 and windows server > 2012 R2 and didn't mentioned anything about 2008, because of this reason, > I mentioned as that it supported till the above operating systems. As > I don't > have windows server 2008 system availability, so I didn't verify the same. > > The visual studio 2017 product itself is not mentioned as that it supports > windows server 2008, can we go ahead and mention it in our documentation? > > [1] - > https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/productinfo/vs2017-system-requirements-vs > >
That page also says:
Microsoft Visual Studio Build Tools 2017
Also installs on Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
So I'm inclined to adjust the documentation accordingly.
Thanks for pointing it out, I missed to check the Build tools support section.
Here I attached the updated patch with the change in documentation to