[Lazarus] Inno Setup no longer supports Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me

Reinier Olislagers reinierolislagers at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 19:38:47 CEST 2012


On 2-8-2012 19:21, Bart wrote:
> Current installer for 1.0RC1 indeed does not run on WinMe.
> 
> Maybe the announcement (forum) should remove win98 from the minimun
> requirements for Windows?
> 
> I know only of one other person who (at least in 2009) uses/used
> Lazarus on Win98 (see
> [url]http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=15352[/url])
Ehmm.. I'm trying to contain myself, but WHY does Lazarus 1 and 1+ even
support Win9x/ME anymore?
Can't any people who use that just use the existing code forever and
backport fixes themselves (e.g. into a separate Win9x branch)?
Not even having a working installer does give the term "supported" an
unexpected twist.

Speaking for myself, after submitting a patch, I really don't want to be
told that Win9x/ME does things differently and that I should correct my
patch to incorporate support.

I'm not against supporting old platforms, but having to support a
version Windows with a very different architecture just doesn't sit well
with me....

But perhaps that's just me.

> I run it on WinMe (but I don't need the installer, I use trunk via svn).
> So it's probably not gonna be an issue.

So have you or anybody else on ME tried the installer? Otherwise WinME
should be removed from the list as well...


Reinier





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