On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Michael Jay Lippert <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > I realize that there is no "support" or testing on Windows 2000, but I've > been running the previous releases (up through 0.9.3) on my Windows 2000 box > with great success. I also have TortoiseSVN and Subversion and Apache > running there. > > Unfortunately the TortoiseHg 1.0 msi won't install. > > Is this because the tools the msi uses for installing don't run on Win2K or > just a preemptive test because TortoiseHg is only advertised to run on > Windows XP, Vista and 7? > > I've never seen the need to move my Win2K to a later version of Windows, it > does everything I want it to. I really don't want to run Windows 7 for > philosophical reasons (included DRM), although its interface may be better > than Vista (which I really didn't like). > > So what I'm asking is could the msi be changed to allow installing on > Windows 2000 after a warning, rather than just aborting?
There's nothing to prevent someone from building an MSI that would install on W2K, you simply have to remove the OS version check from tortoisehg.wxs. But we will not / can not fix bugs for it. -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-discuss
