On 24 July 2006 17:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Now that Microsoft has finally dropped support for Windows 98 and Me, > we're going to drop 9x support as well. > > What we're planning to do is this: > > The complete net distribution gets copied to a new place. This new > place is the distro kept for people running 9x. There is no further > development in this distribution. Maintainers may decide whether or not > they apply fixes to the packages in the 9x distro, or keep it up to date > at all. > > The "normal" net distribution will continue to be the normal distro. It > might work on 9x, but there's no guarantee at all that it will continue > to do so. > > The setup tool (hello setup developers?) should either be split into two > versions, one for 9x, one for NT. Or the setup tool should choose the > download path depending on the OS it's running on. Or something > completely different. > > Comments? Ideas?
It might also be a reasonable idea to fork a win9x bugfixes branch off current CVS, if there's the least likelihood that anyone will want to fix the occasional bug in the 9x version of the dll. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today....