[Geany] Geany win32 problem.

[Nick Treleaven]

On 24/07/06 19:52:53, khaqq wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 20:34:59 +0200
> Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> 
> > I don't know how many people are using Geany under Windows and
> > I don't know how many of them have a Windows older than Windows
> 2000.
> 
> Probably not much, and it looks like they are going to be fewer and
> fewer. W98 has been EOL'd, and it is unstable as hell. I do not see
> why people would develop on it. However, if I was still using 98,
> I would not like being left in the cold, so... I cannot say what is
> best to do.
My family still use a computer running Windows Millenium Edition -  
basically the same as Windows 98. But I guess Windows support isn't  
especially needed - I've installed Linux on its other partition.

I think it comes down to whether allowing Geany to build and run on  
Windows ME/9x actually causes us any problems.

Geany only requires GTK+ 2.6, which does run on WinME/9x. IMO as long  
as this is the only required dependency, we should allow Geany to run  
on WinME/9x, but not necessarily support it; i.e. we should do nothing  
which we can predict would cause problems.

This should not be difficult because any features that won't work on  
WinME/9x can probably be disabled for those systems - e.g. put any  
Windows-specific feature that depends on newer Windows in a DLL, and  
don't load it on WinME/9x. OTOH if this causes too much maintenance  
trouble, or means we need to make 2 different binary Windows releases,  
perhaps we should consider dropping support for the older systems.

At the moment I have an issue with Scintilla updating the text in  
WinME, but we might solve this issue, and it may be caused by something  
else.

Just my opinion on this ;-)

Regards,
Nick