Am 09/27/2012 05:11 AM, schrieb Fernando Cassia:
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:06 AM, Stuart Swales
<stuart.swales.croftnu...@gmail.com> wrote:
Also, moving to Visual Studio 2010 will likely kill off running on
Windows 2000 (and Windows XP prior to SP2). The Visual C++ run-time
library now uses the EncodePointer function which was introduced in XP SP2.
Oracle switched to VS2010 for some part of Java6, that´s why the
latest Java6 JRE updates won´t install on Win2K.
However, I managed to hammer the latest Java6u35+ or thereabouts just
by copying files over from a WinXP install over the Win2K previous
JRE6 install and guess what? it works.... it seems it´s part of the
installer that needs MSVC runtimes that can´t be run in Win2K...
Sure, there will be the one or other way to hack a Java version into an
old Windows release. However, the most important part is:
Is that suitable and doable for an average user?
Especially for what you wrote abut I guess it's not. ;-(
Of course, IMHO.
Marcus
