Hi Magnus,
On Jan 18, 2005, at 1:34 PM, Magnus Hagander wrote:
1) Declare NT4 without IE4 unsupported. This is by far the easiest :P What we'd do later is add a check to the MSI installer to inform the user about this.
Seems a bit gross to say that NT4 is supported, but only if you happen to have a really old version of IE (or you happened to install it and choose the right option somewhere along your way to a later IE version). If I read the MS page correctly, having IE 4 installed does not guarantee things will work. You must have chosen the option to install Windows Desktop Update. I would not be surprised if I did this -- I hate the Windows explorer interfaces that tries to make everything look like a web page :).
2) Revert to the pre-8.0 behaviour with the files. This is IMHO a very bad idea, because that was not well-behaved on *current* Windows platforms.
Is it not possible to add a version check and just use the old method with Windows NT?
What is this function call used to get other than the user's home directory?
3) Change to using SHGetFolderPath() linked from shfolder.dll (note that
this function exists in two different dlls. We'd need the one in
shfolder.dll to have any effect). And then point people who don't have
shfolder.dll to the Microsoft download site for this file (it's
redistributable, but only in an unmodified self-extracting file, so we
can't easily embed it in the installer. can be done, but not as easy as
one would like). It will be required on most systems running 95, 98 and
NT4 (without it we'll be broken on 95 and 98, which work today). The
file is included on current windows versions by default. This is
probably the nicest idea, but I'm not sure how much work we want to
throw into the NT4 support. Considering MS has stopped supporting it
even to their pay-through-the-nose-for-support customers by now. (and we
*do* work on NT4 as long as the user has installed IE4)
I certainly understand not wanting to spend a bunch of time on NT support. But everything seemed fine through 8.0.0-rc1, so I would hate to see it go away over this one issue. I did not realize that 95/98 worked at all. I don't think anyone really wants to setup a server on 95, 98, or even NT4, but it would be really nice if psql would work.
John DeSoi, Ph.D. http://pgedit.com/ Power Tools for PostgreSQL
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