Marco van de Voort wrote:
In our previous episode, Hans-Peter Diettrich said:
IMO a more radical solution is desireable, WRT Win9x. Did anybody test
already, how FPC/Lazarus apps behave on such a system, which does not
support themes etc., and does not even support Unicode without system
updates?
I'd split the Win32 target into WinNT (W) and Win9x (A), so that the
users can decide whether to support Win9x at all.
That depends on decisions still to be made. If we also support 1-byte RTL,
it will still be on the level of winNT.
But I do think that a win9x vs winnt split is unavoidable in time. Specially
since otherwise one gets in the current situation that win9x is occasionally
fixed for a release, but in reality constantly broken in between.
Presumably lumping pre-W2K NT in with '9x. I'm thinking of
http://mantis.freepascal.org/view.php?id=18803 which wasn't really
resolved, and which was caused by the return code of a function not
implemented in older OSes not being checked.
--
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
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