Windows 7 was released 10 years ago and Microsoft’s support for it ended 3 years ago, so it seems weird to expect Github to support its use...
Fun fact: libgit2, a library made by Github, uses TLS 1.1 on Windows versions earlier than 10. Which means that attempting to access Github via libgit2 on Windows 7 is now broken. https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5066 …
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Windows 7 is not EOL until 2020. Depending on where you get your stats, it accounts for somewhere between 45% and 25% of desktop marketshare today. It's the most widely used desktop OS. This also affects Windows 8 and 8.1 AFAIK
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Yup. Unfortunately this issue appears to users as an arbitrary network failure, not something that they can research. Even if they could, to the average user this looks like "your software doesn't work". Not to mention 99% of users don't know how to edit a registry key.
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It uses TLS 1.0, and there is a patch to fix it. This is only going to get worse after June when the PCI deadline forces more sites to disable TLS 1.0.
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I’ve been pushing third parties to get on TLS 1.2 for years now. It is going frustratingly slow because of exactly problems like this.
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I hate to "um, actually" here, but um, actually, libgit2 isn't made by GitHub. It's a library contributed to by developers from all over.
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I meant that it was originally built by Github. I didn't mean to imply that all current maintainers worked there. Sorry for my poor choice of words.
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