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

[Reinier Olislagers]

On 3-8-2012 11:56, Marco van de Voort wrote:
> 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. 
Well thanks Graeme, very nice reverse compliment - I'll take my pills now ;)

>> 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)
That does sound like a good plan for FPC trunk.

What do we do with Lazarus though?
At least the 1.0 code base would presumably need Win9x support.

http://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Lazarus_Development_Process#Lazarus_branches_.2F_version_numbers_around_1.0
AFAIU, current trunk is 1.1.
We could e.g. branch it off and have a separate Win9x architecture
branch based on the (to be created) Win9x branch off FPC trunk in time
for 1.2?
Or is there a much smarter solution?


Regards,
Reinier