I suggest don't forbid, but also don't support legacy (non vendor
supported) OS's.

XP is dangerously unsupported at this point.

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015, 10:17 AM Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus <
spappala...@mixxx.org> wrote:

>
>
> On 11/18/2015 09:13 AM, Sébastien BLAISOT wrote:
> > 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 ? ;)
>
> To be clear, when we say an OS version is "not supported" that's exactly
> what we mean: we will not do anything to make it work on that old OS. So
> we need not maintain legacy code at all. So our attitude becomes "You're
> welcome to try it. If it works, great. If not, oh well."
>
> Forbidding installation means we're saying "You're not welcome to try it."
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Sean M. Pappalardo
> "D.J. Pegasus"
> Mixxx Developer - Controller Specialist
>
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