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

[waldo kitty]

On 8/3/2012 04:34, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi,
>
>> Current installer for 1.0RC1 indeed does not run on WinMe.
>
> How ridiculous is it that the applications will probably run fine on
> older Windows versions, but the INSTALLER is the limiting factor and

this is the same thing with the adobe flash installer... flash runs just fine on 
w2k but the installer requires winXP... there's two methods to fix this problem, 
though... one is to use a shim kernel and install where the shim kernel is 
located... another is to hex edit the installer and find the one routine name 
and replace it with the older routine name... in the particular case with flash, 
it is the dll loading routine... the old name generally used fits exactly in the 
new name's place and works just fine... you just have to do this each time 
there's an update...

> has different requirements / LIMITATION to the application it is
> installing. Talk about f**ken stupid. Solution: use a different
> installer that doesn't pose such FALSE requirements.

i might suggest to fix the installer so that it detects which OS it is on and 
then it will call the proper routine for that OS... but that's me... i don't 
know if the above described situation with adobe flash is the same problem we're 
seeing here but it is installer related... i don't know what installer adobe is 
using and don't know how to find out but the smell is similar ;)