Dropping support for such out-dated and insecure operating systems can only be a good thing. If anyone has a machine that can't handle Win7 at least then it probably won't run RPCEmu very well anyway. Good to hear it's still being developed!
On Thu, Oct 3, 2019 at 10:38 PM Peter Howkins <[email protected]> wrote: > Due to needing to remain on a supported version of a library that we use to > build RPCEmu, future releases of RPCEmu will no longer support Windows XP > or > Windows Vista. We will continue to support the Windows 7, 8 and 10 > families. > > What does this mean in detail? > > 1) All releases of RPCEmu so far released that do support Windows XP and > Vista will continue to run as they do currently. There is no magic code > that > will disable old versions. > > 2) Previous versions of RPCEmu will continue to be available via the > previous > versions page, probably indefinitely. > http://www.marutan.net/rpcemu/oldversions.html > > 3) Future Windows versions of RPCEmu will not be supported on Windows XP > and > Vista. While it is theoretically possible they may still work, they will no > longer be tested, may partially work or fail in 'interesting' ways. > > 4) Bugs that are reported against previous versions on Windows XP and > Vista, > that are not also present in the current, will not be investigated. > > 5) Bugs that are reported against previous versions on Windows XP and > Vista, > that are present in the current version, will be investigated but the fixes > will come out in releases that are not compatible with Windows XP or Vista. > > 6) All good things come to an end, whilst we may be dropping support for > these older OSs, it is still 5 years more support than Microsoft gave the > OS > itself. > > Peter Howkins > > _______________________________________________ > RPCEmu mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.riscos.info/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rpcemu >
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