[chef] Re: chef 0.10.10 and xp

[Bryan McLellan < >]

On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Grzegorz Marszałek 
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 wrote:
> I've just try to run chef-client on windows xp - and it failed with error 
> "Function 'QuerySecurityAccessMask' not found in [advapi32]". From what 
> I've read in CHEF-2887 you won't support xp anymore.
>
> That's sad news :( More than a half of computers managed by my company are 
> running xp - and there is small chance to change it anytime soon. So any 
> chances to change your mind and add support of xp?

The work that we did for Chef 0.10.10 to provide support for Windows
ACLs isn't supported on XP. A contributor is welcome to write a patch
to provide a clean alternative for XP that implements the same
features, but Opscode doesn't plan to ourselves.

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