[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #11, patch #6818 (project freeciv): JFTR (in a closed bug), http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/windows-issues.html mentions that XP could be also an issue for QT5. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #10, patch #6818 (project freeciv): > Dropping W2K because it had no IPV6 That was the original reason this patch dropped anything below Vista, that was the first Windows to provide proper IPv6 interface. (or at least mingw that we use, does not provide IPv6 functionality if

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #9, patch #6818 (project freeciv): > Are you really against this I really think that Freeciv should work on any platform it used to work on. Dropping W2K because it had no IPV6 (and because QT5 also dropped W2K) was am exception, like dropping XPM was an exception. OTOH it

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Update of patch #6818 (project freeciv): Status: Ready For Test => Done Assigned to:None => cazfi Open/Closed:Open => Closed

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #6, patch #6818 (project freeciv): Version that applies to TRUNK attached. Will commit S2_6 version already. (file #26478) ___ Additional Item Attachment: File name: VistaMinimum-TRUNK.patch Size:2 KB

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #5, patch #6818 (project freeciv): > Are you really against this, or is it "just surprising" patch? Will assume "not a real objection" in 24h, and commit. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #4, patch #6818 (project freeciv): > this is a slightly odd suggestion. Are you really against this, or is it "just surprising" patch? If it's not clear from the original submission, the reason for this is that as long as we build our binaries in a way that they are compatible

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #3, patch #6818 (project freeciv): Made this an dependency to "2.6.0-beta1" release as we don't want to increase minimum requirements in the branch once first beta has been released. ___ Reply to this item at:

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #2, patch #6818 (project freeciv): I think we should split your points to a new ticket(s). Then we could debate if this ticket would depend on them or not. The fact that MS itself has dropped support for older Windows version makes supporting them, and losing important

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

Follow-up Comment #1, patch #6818 (project freeciv): As long as Vista or later installations do not really work, because Freeciv tries to write to its own installation directory (stdout + stderr + crash RPT + map colour test output among others, strictly forbidden on Vista or later) this is a

[Freeciv-Dev] [patch #6818] Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds

URL: Summary: Make Vista the minimum requirement for Windows Installer builds Project: Freeciv Submitted by: cazfi Submitted on: Sun 17 Jan 2016 01:31:38 PM EET Category: general