Drop Windows host support
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Current evaluation
Windows host support was removed by merged PR canonical/craft-providers#752 (commit e8f0ca9); users should use WSL2 or Multipass instead.
Resolution: closed resolved
Reason: PR #752, “feat!(platform): remove Windows support,” was merged as commit e8f0ca9 and explicitly resolved #623.
Evaluated by: mr-cal-bot
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Issue body
### What needs to get done
Remove support for Windows hosts
### Why it needs to get done
We're moving to using WSL for craft apps on Windows.
Evaluation history
| Date | Model | Scores | Action | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| stealth/space-bunny-alpha | — | closed resolved | Windows host support was removed by merged PR canonical/craft-providers#752 (commit e8f0ca9); users should use WSL2 or Multipass instead. | |
| qwen/qwen3.6-35b-a3b | — | closed resolved | Windows host support removed via craft-providers#752; users should use WSL2 or Multipass instead. |
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Related work
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Likely Fixed By:
canonical/craft-providers#752
(confidence 100%)
Merged PR removing Windows host support and implementing this issue’s request.
Related issues
| Issue | Project | State | Summary | Similarity |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #752 feat!(platform): remove Windows support | craft-providers | merged | Merged PR #752 as commit e8f0ca9, removing Windows host support and closing #623. Windows users are directed to WSL2 or Multipass. | |
| #4964 Remove Windows support | snapcraft | closed | Windows support removed by merged PR #6075 (commit fbc42f181, SNAPCRAFT-69), deleting the windows/ build files in favour of WSL. Superseded unmerged PR #4975; required craft-cli#422. |