What versions do platform support track? about getrandom HOT 4 CLOSED

We have the precedent of removing Windows XP support in v0.2.1, which has followed the removal in std. So I think it's a reasonable policy to follow std and allow removal of target support in non-major releases. Post-1.0 we probably should do it in minor releases, but before that we have no choice but to do it in patch releases.

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I think it would be ok to drop now-unsupoorted OS versions in a non-major release (i.e. this would not be a breaking change).

@newpavlov any thoughts here? It might be nice to have an official policy which we mention in the README.

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Great, that makes things pretty easy then. Agree that the minor version increases in the future would be a polite allowance to downstream users.

Since both of you agree on the policy, does this plan seem fine?

• Wait for Rust 1.74 to come out and abandon older Apple OSes.
• I make two PRs:
  • Mirror the in-progress stdlib changes (which will probably be merged by then) for Apple's RNG logic here to match
  • Formally document the policy in the README

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@BlackHoleFox that sounds perfect! Thanks for taking care of this.

I also don't think it's necessary to wait until 1.74 comes out to submit/merge the PR. We just need to be sure to not cut a release of getrandom until 1.74 is released.

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