Associated question is: If you choose to warn only, who is willing to maintain legacy windows installer code and horrible hacks to make this happen ? ;)
I think that's not just a yes/no question, but is also a matter of feature from windows installer we can use or not depending of the minimal version we support (I can't tell which at the moment and need to check the code against older versions). So, my vote goes to the first: don't encourage people to use outdated, security-risky software and don't give them tools (like installers) to use them. If they really want, they can try to compile from source or use older Mixxx versions as well. This is better also for us because we can use modern and recent code. (in the same way, do we need to switch to c++11? people can't install modern c++11-compliant compilers on their old OS :) --- Sébastien Blaisot Le 18/11/2015 18:01, Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus a écrit : > Hello everyone. > > As Sebastien prepares a WiX-based Windows installer, (thanks for your > work on this!!) the question has come up: What should we do if someone > tries to install on a version of Windows older than we support? Do we > forbid installation or allow it only after accepting a warning pop-up > saying that there is no support and it may not work at all? > > I vote the latter because people may want to try Mixxx on old surplus > hardware that can't run newer Windows versions, especially in poorer > countries. (Of course the case can be made that they should run Linux > instead, but I figure, why artificially limit people from trying?) > > Sincerely, > Sean M. Pappalardo > "D.J. Pegasus" > Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > _______________________________________________ > Get Mixxx, the #1 Free MP3 DJ Mixing software Today > http://mixxx.org [1] > > Mixxx-devel mailing list > Mixxx-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel [2] Links: ------ [1] http://mixxx.org [2] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
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