Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote: > Angus Leeming writes: > | I'd like to proceed in small steps to apply the fixes needed to > | get things working under older versions of Windows.
> I'd rather drop all support for '95 '98.... but it seems that you > are willing to maintain this for eternity so... No, not really. But although the noise that I made doing this was loud, the final patch is actually remarkably small. Microsoft do pretty much all of the hard work for us through their NewAPIs.h file. The glue code is maybe 50 lines. > | Here's patch 1, to Boost.Filesystem. Beman Dawes, the libraries > | author, has indicated that he's "sympathetic" to the patch: > | http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/131958 > | Can I apply it to the LyX sources, please? Has no effect on non > | Windows users. > And if it does not go into boost, you will surely maintain your > changes to it for ever and ever as well. Whatever. Beman has asked me to check out his i18n branch. When I do so, I'll try and apply the patch to it and will get Luis Rivera to test on Win95. Thereafter, I'd hope that Beman will just merge it into the official sources. -- Angus
