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

Marco van de Voort marcov at stack.nl
Fri Aug 3 11:56:34 CEST 2012


On Fri, Aug 03, 2012 at 10:51:51AM +0100, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> > 2.2 a separate win9x branch supported by whomever wants to work on it
> 
> I actually like Marco van de Voort's idea of creating two target
> platforms for Windows. That is the most sane comment on this subject
> so far. It will be very similar to the LCL-GTK1 vs LCL-GTK2
> implementation.

It also forces the target to carry its own weight, and doesn't force people
uninterested to pay attention.  But that is something for trunk branch, not
for fixes like 2.6

But that works to ways, IOW it also means you can build in a complete
unicode emulation without the 99.9% NT majority suffering from it (read: getting
endless binary size discussions)

(win9x support might be something that will get harder when more unicode
centric releases as fpc/trunk.7.1 come out, though the unicode changes are
glacial at the moment)





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