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

Mattias Gaertner nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de
Thu Aug 2 19:50:38 CEST 2012


On Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:38:47 +0200
Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

I removed the Win98 from the forum message.
There are more targets where Lazarus/LCL work, but there is is not
installer/package. For example OS X PowerPC, Solaris or arm cpus.

Mattias




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