From a424f7f173a85774f841ddf974b507c60521e127 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "John W. Parent" <45471568+johnwparent@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 16:32:28 -0500
Subject: Identify Windows support with tags (#35027)

All packages with explicit Windows support can be found with
`spack list --tags=windows`.

This also removes the documentation which explicitly lists
supported packages on Windows (which is currently out of date and
is now unnecessary with the added tags).

Note that if a package does not appear in this list, it *may*
still build on Windows, but it likely means that no explicit
attempt has been made to support it.
---
 lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst | 29 ++++++++---------------------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

(limited to 'lib')

diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
index 3c11632fe4..253b0e41e5 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/getting_started.rst
@@ -1700,29 +1700,15 @@ If in the previous step, you did not have CMake or Ninja installed, running the
 Windows Compatible Packages
 """""""""""""""""""""""""""
 
-Many Spack packages are not currently compatible with Windows, due to Unix
-dependencies or incompatible build tools like autoconf. Here are several
-packages known to work on Windows:
-
-* abseil-cpp
-* bzip2
-* clingo
-* cpuinfo
-* cmake
-* hdf5
-* glm
-* nasm
-* netlib-lapack (requires Intel Fortran)
-* ninja
-* openssl
-* perl
-* python
-* ruby
-* wrf
-* zlib
+Not all spack packages currently have Windows support. Some are inherently incompatible with the
+platform, and others simply have yet to be ported. To view the current set of packages with Windows
+support, the list command should be used via `spack list -t windows`. If there's a package you'd like
+to install on Windows but is not in that list, feel free to reach out to request the port or contribute
+the port yourself.
 
 .. note::
-   This is by no means a comprehensive list
+   This is by no means a comprehensive list, some packages may have ports that were not tagged
+   while others may just work out of the box on Windows and have not been tagged as such.
 
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 For developers
@@ -1734,3 +1720,4 @@ Instructions for creating the installer are at
 https://github.com/spack/spack/blob/develop/lib/spack/spack/cmd/installer/README.md
 
 Alternatively a pre-built copy of the Windows installer is available as an artifact of Spack's Windows CI
+available at each run of the CI on develop or any PR.
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