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Re: setup ChangeLog IniDBBuilder.h IniDBBuilderPac ...


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 02:12:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec 16 13:40, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 06:18:38PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >But we discussed this on the developers list.  The old setup will be
>> >setup-legacy.exe and setup.exe is only for 1.7 and later.  I'm rather
>> >puzzled that you want to change this again.  I have matching local
>> >changes to the web page waiting.  Please don't change this again.
>> 
>> Since I have to change source code to understand the "release-legacy"
>> directory, I opted to just do it in the trunk rather than the ancient
>> setup 1.5 branch.  There will still be a setup-legacy binary.
>
>Ok.  The problem is just this.  If setup.exe still works for 9x users
>and just access setup-legacy.ini, they will never see that they are
>accessing an unsupported repository.  That's why I now think that
>setup.exe should give them a warning instead.  They should explicitely
>be forced to use setup-legacy.exe if they updated at all.

"There will still be a setup-legacy binary" != "setup.exe will seem to
work just fine for Windows 9x users".

cgf


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