On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 06:05:47PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >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.
We'll certainly cvs tag the point prior to any known 9x breakage so this should be possible. cgf