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

Graeme Geldenhuys graemeg.lists at gmail.com
Fri Aug 3 11:26:13 CEST 2012


Hi,

On 2 August 2012 19:49, Reinier Olislagers <reinierolislagers at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it so strange to get rid of this platform that hasn't been supported
> for ages?

So with that I would guess you consider Win 3.1 "unsupported for ages"
too. Yet Microsoft only announced that back in 2008. Now consider when
Win 3.1 came out!

   http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jcoyne/archive/2008/07/09/it-s-the-end-for-3-11.aspx


> Also, is anybody maintaining GUI software that needs to run on the Win9x
> architecture?

Yes our company is. And nobody is going to tell our clients to upgrade
their systems - that's for them to decided. In the mean time, our
software must keep running on those systems - that's what they are
paying us for.


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Regards,
  - Graeme -


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