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Re: [PATCH] setup: remove legacy code
On Mar 4 10:32, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 12:45:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Mar 4 05:19, Yaakov wrote:
> >> The attached patch removes all is_legacy and !IsWindowsNT() codepaths,
> >> as well as one part specific to Win2K.
> >>
> >> 2013-03-04 Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@...>
> >>
> >> Throughout, drop support for Cygwin 1.5 and Windows pre-XP.
> >> [...]
> >
> >I'm AFK for a while so I'll review that later today. But please keep
> >the W2K-specific part for now. 1.7.18 will still support Windows 2000
> >so setup should do that as well.
>
> Sorry for jumping the gun on this. Why not just remove W2K support in
> 1.7.18? That would be one less difference with the 64-bit branch. When
> it gets merged into the trunk.
Well, the reason was that I thought we should first advertise the fact
when releasing 1.7.18, along the lines of "this is the last release
which supports Windows 2000 and Windows XP without Service Pack 3".
Corinna
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