On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:51:45AM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: > >>>>> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:11:09 -0400, Alex Burger > >>>>> <ale...@users.sourceforge.net> said: > > I'm going to defer all judgment to those more familiar with windows > development than I. Thus take these comments as minor: > > AB> 4) I don't think we need to support Windows NT anymore and we certainly > AB> don't need to support Windows 9x. > > I'm not sure I buy NT being gone. I suspect it's still in greater use > than it possibly should be. But again, I'll defer and am not voting.
Sadly, Windows NT4 is still in use by plenty of systems - I still run into them in the medical industry attached to CAT scanners and the like - but these are legacy systems for which development has been frozen for a long time. Even if vendors are still [barely] supporting the code - as Microsoft does for a big fee - it stretches the imagination that anybody is undergoing new development on this platform. If I were king, I'd be happy to drop NT4 support from the current release and invite those poor self-abusing souls who need it to use version N-1 on that platform. Alex wrote: > For #2, we can either distribute the Microsoft DLLs (1.4Meg) or require > that the user install the 'Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable > Package' from the Microsoft web site. It's probably easier to just > include the DLLs. I think it makes me a little nervous to take responsibility for distributing somebody else's binaries when it's not so hard to point them to the right place. But depending on how the installer is built I guess it might be so much more convenient for the to just include them. Steve -- Stephen J Friedl | Security Consultant | UNIX Wizard | 714 694-0494 st...@unixwiz.net | Orange County, CA | Microsoft MVP | unixwiz.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Crystal Reports - New Free Runtime and 30 Day Trial Check out the new simplified licensign option that enables unlimited royalty-free distribution of the report engine for externally facing server and web deployment. http://p.sf.net/sfu/businessobjects _______________________________________________ Net-snmp-coders mailing list Net-snmp-coders@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/net-snmp-coders
