[Geany] Geany win32 problem.

[Enrico Tröger]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 17:16:33 +0100, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> 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.
Yes, two different binary releases are a no go.
For the moment Geany runs on Windows <= ME, except of the below
mentioned problem, and we will see what will happen in the future.

> 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.
Did I already ask if SciTE works?

Regards,
Enrico

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